Oxford Balliol College Library MS 354 (Richard Hill's Commonplace Book)

Manuscript Identification
Reference Number	Eng4
Location	Bodleian Library, Oxford
Siglum/Shelfmark	Balliol College Library, Oxford MS. 354, "Richard Hill's Commonplace Book"
Page/Folio range

Textual Content and Tradition
Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
Version (siglum)	A* (Southern English, Y Group)
└ Language Group within Version
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition

Languages
Language of text	Middle English
Regional or specific Language of text
Source for regional or specific Language of text

Digitisation and Editions
Digitisation	https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/e0d10554-db39-4b58-a944-45da5e66248e/
Modern Editions

Authorship and Production
Scribe	Richard Hill
Author
Place of Manuscript Production	London
Date of Manuscript Production	1501/1533
Source of Date of Manuscript Production

Physical Description
Material	Paper
Total pages/folios in Manuscript
Height	292
Width	108
Script style/form
Prose or verse
Illustrations	No

Contents and Additional Texts
Other texts in the Manuscript	'Seven Sages p. 39-112 (xviii r - liv v, contemporary numeration) 'Memorandum book' of Richard Hill - includes 'Godfrydus of Rome,' prose treatises on the management of horses and on grafting, The Seige of Rone, family memoranda, Anglo-French vocabularly including a bilinguial version of the Boke of Curtasie, excerpts from Confessio Amantis, songs and carols, romances (Apollonius of Tyr), etc.

Catalogues and Research Literature
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Karl Brunner, The Seven Sages of Rome (Southern Version), EETS, OUP, 1933

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