The Parlement of Foules [and other poems]

The Parlement of Foules [and other poems]: Edition Description

Summary:

    Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
    Title: The Parlement of Foules [and other poems]
    Place: [Westminster]
    Printer/Publisher: [Caxton, William]
    Date: [about 1477]
    Main Language: English
    Contents:
      Item 1: Chaucer, The parlement of fowls [sig. [a]1r-[c]1r]

        Incipit: The lyf so short the craft so lōge to lerne

        Explicit: Explicit the temple of bras

      Item 2: Henry Scogan, Moral Balade [sig. [c]1r-5v]

        Incipit: Here next foloweth a tretyse whiche Iohn Gkogan (sic) Sente vnto the lordes and gentil men of the kynges hows

        Note: misascribed to 'John Skogan'

      Item 3: an anonymous stanza [sig. [c]5v]

        Incipit: Wyth empty honde men may no hawkes lure

      Item 4: Chaucer, Truth [sig. [c]5v-6r;]

        Incipit: Wyth empty honde men may no hawkes lure

      Item 5: Chaucer, Fortune [sig. [c]6v-8r]

        Incipit: Balade of the vilage without peyntyng Playntyf to fortune

      Item 6: Chaucer, Envoy to Skogan [sig. [c]8r-v]

        Incipit: Thenuoye of chaucer to skegan

        Note: incomplete.

Physical Description:

Object Description:

Form: Codex

Material: Paper stock 45

Format: Q°

Ideal collation: Collation not known. [a b c8...]. Known only from the first 24 leaves. 14 leaves are 'mostly mutilated' (Duff(R)).

Layout description:

      Layout:
      • Columns: 1
      • Written Lines: 23

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List of Copies:

    • Copies as listed in ISTC
      • UK, London, British Library, IB.55016 (A fragment of 14 leaves, [a]2-7 and quire [c])
      • UK, Cambridge, University Library, Inc.5.J.1.1[3485]
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