Script: anglicana and secretary; in the hands of at least two scribes.

Decoration: initials in red and blue, some with marginal scroll decoration.

Layout: 56 lines in two columns, 15 stanzas per page. Catchwords.

Binding: 19th-century calf over wood, covers inlaid with fragment of 16th-century binding preseving the initials "M.S." (Mary Sidney).

In Middle English.

Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, of this narrative poem by John Lydgate. The text was almost certainly originally complete but now lacks the Prologue and the opening stanzas of Book I, opening at the line "For to be crowned in that regeous" and lacking the final few leaves of text as well. There is also a textual lacuna between f92v and f93r.

Contemporary textual corrections and insertions marked by red crosses. Occasional pen trials and names in contemporary hands.

Autograph letter signed from Frederic Madden to Lord Braybrooke, 1840 March 9, tipped in at front of volume. The letter contains a description of the manuscript and advises that it be rebound while preserving the initials of Mary Sidney.

English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500.

English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.