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INTRODUCTION.
IX
professional interest and that the owner was a lawyer.1
Dr B. F. C. Atkinson, Assistant Librarian in charge of
the MSS. at Cambridge, who was good enough to answer
some queries about the MS., informs me that " the Arms
in the initial of Part I may be those of the Hawte family,
who were Kentish,” and the book or that part may at
one time have been in their possession.
No. 6 of Kk. i. 5 is a paper MS. of the latter half of the
fifteenth century. As it is at present the page is about
27.3 c. in height, 19.8 c. in breadth, approximately
Tof" x Originally it was a little larger, but has
been cropped, presumably by the seventeenth century
binder, and some of the notes added in the side margins
have lost a letter or part of a letter, while at the top margin
the extended shafts or flourishes have in a few instances
been partially cut away, as well as a portion of the
scribblings on the top margin of f. 55. There are five
quires or gatherings. The first three are twelves, the
fourth a ten, and the fifth was originally also ten, but
the second last folio has been torn out, leaving only a
strip at the inner edge, so that the gathering now contains
nine folios. The gatherings have signatures /, g, h i, i, k,
then on the succeeding folios / ii to / vii, g ii to g vii,
h ii to h vii, i ii to i vi, k ii to k vi respectively. Catch¬
words are added at the bottom of folios 12s, 24s, gb6, qb1,
and are numbered respectively i, ii, Hi, iiii. A modern
hand has marked a i on the lower margin of f. 1, then b i,
c i, d i, e i on ff. 13, 25, 37, 47, presumably as a direc¬
tion to the binder after the separation of the parts.
An older but modern numbering of the folios began with
No. 3 of the composite MS. The first folio of No. b is
1 As a mere guess attention may be directed to James Logan, writer
and notary public, clerk of the Canongait and of the regality of Broughton
at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth
centuries.
IX
professional interest and that the owner was a lawyer.1
Dr B. F. C. Atkinson, Assistant Librarian in charge of
the MSS. at Cambridge, who was good enough to answer
some queries about the MS., informs me that " the Arms
in the initial of Part I may be those of the Hawte family,
who were Kentish,” and the book or that part may at
one time have been in their possession.
No. 6 of Kk. i. 5 is a paper MS. of the latter half of the
fifteenth century. As it is at present the page is about
27.3 c. in height, 19.8 c. in breadth, approximately
Tof" x Originally it was a little larger, but has
been cropped, presumably by the seventeenth century
binder, and some of the notes added in the side margins
have lost a letter or part of a letter, while at the top margin
the extended shafts or flourishes have in a few instances
been partially cut away, as well as a portion of the
scribblings on the top margin of f. 55. There are five
quires or gatherings. The first three are twelves, the
fourth a ten, and the fifth was originally also ten, but
the second last folio has been torn out, leaving only a
strip at the inner edge, so that the gathering now contains
nine folios. The gatherings have signatures /, g, h i, i, k,
then on the succeeding folios / ii to / vii, g ii to g vii,
h ii to h vii, i ii to i vi, k ii to k vi respectively. Catch¬
words are added at the bottom of folios 12s, 24s, gb6, qb1,
and are numbered respectively i, ii, Hi, iiii. A modern
hand has marked a i on the lower margin of f. 1, then b i,
c i, d i, e i on ff. 13, 25, 37, 47, presumably as a direc¬
tion to the binder after the separation of the parts.
An older but modern numbering of the folios began with
No. 3 of the composite MS. The first folio of No. b is
1 As a mere guess attention may be directed to James Logan, writer
and notary public, clerk of the Canongait and of the regality of Broughton
at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth
centuries.
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| Description | Edited, with an appendix of the other pieces from Cambridge University Library Manuscript. Kk. 1.5, no. 6, by R. Girvan. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons, 1939. Contents: Introduction.--Ratis raving.--The foly of fulys and the thewis of wysmen.--The consail and teiching at the vys man gaif his sone.--The thewis off gudwomen.--Documenta matris ad filiam.--Notes.--Appendix: 1. The craft of deyng. 2. Maxims of conduct. 3. Chaucer's Balade de bon conseil. 4. Balade attributed to James I. of Scotland. 5. The duty of work. 6. Dicta Salomonis. 7. The vertewis of the mess.--Glossary. 'Ratis raving' has been attributed to David Rate. |
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