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INTRODUCTION.
accordingly 84, and the numbers then run to 101 = f. 18.
Here f. 19 was omitted in the series, 102 = f. 20 and so to
137 = f. 55. The folio torn out at the end is not included
in the series. These older numbers are now struck through
in favour of a new numbering more recently substituted,
the numbers running from 1 to 55. On the top margin
of f. is added the indication MS. Kk. 1. 5, No. 6.
The writing begins at the top of f. ia and continues to
the middle of f. 54“. The lower part of the folio and the
reverse 54s are blank ; 55“ has some scribblings at the
top but is otherwise blank, as is also 55''. The scribblings
are in the same hand as those at the top of f. 48“. The
fifth gathering is backed by a strip of paper inserted at
the time of the separate binding; f. 55 is torn, the lower
right-hand corner being detached in a curved tear from
about centre to centre ; f. 24 is torn at the top and mended
on the reverse by a small strip of paper, formerly larger
and covering the extended upper shaft of k in take.
The paper has a watermark which in the first four
gatherings is a Gothic P with an oblique stroke through
the shaft sloping up from left to right. As far as can be
determined it is almost or even completely identical with
that figured by Briquet in Les Filigraines, III. No. 8573.
In the fifth gathering the watermark is also a Gothic P
with oblique stroke, but surmounted by a quatrefoil as
in the examples in Briquet, 8654-82 (besides one or two
later numbers), and it is like some of these—e.g., 8662—
but is not identical with any. The one most like is 8622,
which is almost identical, but lacks the cross-stroke.
Little can be deduced from the paper employed ; a paper
of the fifteenth century and of French manufacture is
indicated, but a date is not determinable other than
within the wide limit from about the middle of the
fifteenth century down to the earlier part of the sixteenth.
The writing is within a rectangle marked out in gather-
INTRODUCTION.
accordingly 84, and the numbers then run to 101 = f. 18.
Here f. 19 was omitted in the series, 102 = f. 20 and so to
137 = f. 55. The folio torn out at the end is not included
in the series. These older numbers are now struck through
in favour of a new numbering more recently substituted,
the numbers running from 1 to 55. On the top margin
of f. is added the indication MS. Kk. 1. 5, No. 6.
The writing begins at the top of f. ia and continues to
the middle of f. 54“. The lower part of the folio and the
reverse 54s are blank ; 55“ has some scribblings at the
top but is otherwise blank, as is also 55''. The scribblings
are in the same hand as those at the top of f. 48“. The
fifth gathering is backed by a strip of paper inserted at
the time of the separate binding; f. 55 is torn, the lower
right-hand corner being detached in a curved tear from
about centre to centre ; f. 24 is torn at the top and mended
on the reverse by a small strip of paper, formerly larger
and covering the extended upper shaft of k in take.
The paper has a watermark which in the first four
gatherings is a Gothic P with an oblique stroke through
the shaft sloping up from left to right. As far as can be
determined it is almost or even completely identical with
that figured by Briquet in Les Filigraines, III. No. 8573.
In the fifth gathering the watermark is also a Gothic P
with oblique stroke, but surmounted by a quatrefoil as
in the examples in Briquet, 8654-82 (besides one or two
later numbers), and it is like some of these—e.g., 8662—
but is not identical with any. The one most like is 8622,
which is almost identical, but lacks the cross-stroke.
Little can be deduced from the paper employed ; a paper
of the fifteenth century and of French manufacture is
indicated, but a date is not determinable other than
within the wide limit from about the middle of the
fifteenth century down to the earlier part of the sixteenth.
The writing is within a rectangle marked out in gather-
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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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