Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Editorial Note
- Chronology
- Genealogies
- Introduction
- Part I LIFE
- Part II WORKS
- APPENDICES
- Appendix 1 Of the Title of Edward Earl of March (De Titulo Edwardi Comitis Marchie)
- Appendix 2 The Declaration upon certain writings late sent out of Scotland
- Appendix 3 Surviving Manuscripts of Sir John Fortescue's Works
- Appendix 4 Works Referred to by Sir John Fortescue
- Appendix 5 Modern English-Language Editions Containing Works by Sir John Fortescue
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 3 - Surviving Manuscripts of Sir John Fortescue's Works
from APPENDICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Editorial Note
- Chronology
- Genealogies
- Introduction
- Part I LIFE
- Part II WORKS
- APPENDICES
- Appendix 1 Of the Title of Edward Earl of March (De Titulo Edwardi Comitis Marchie)
- Appendix 2 The Declaration upon certain writings late sent out of Scotland
- Appendix 3 Surviving Manuscripts of Sir John Fortescue's Works
- Appendix 4 Works Referred to by Sir John Fortescue
- Appendix 5 Modern English-Language Editions Containing Works by Sir John Fortescue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Information concerning watermarks has been taken from C.M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire Historique des Marques du Papier, 1282–1600, 4 vols (Paris, London, etc.: 1907).
In some of the manuscripts no watermarks are visible.
All the manuscripts are written on paper.
The Commodities of England
Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud Misc. 593, ff. 16b–19a, late fifteenth century. The only known copy of this work. Preceded by the Governance of England, ff. 1a–15b. See the Governance below for details.
De Titulo Edwardi Comitis Marchie
London, BL MS Additional 48063, ff. 4a–11b, early sixteenth century. The only known copy of this work. See above, Appendix 1, for details.
Of the Title of the House of York
No complete copy of this tract is known to survive. The report of the committee of 1732 on the burnt Cotton Manuscripts shows that Otto B i, which could have dated from the fifteenth century, contained a version of approximately ten sides, ff. 92a–96a.
One defaced, untitled fragment of the beginning exists in London, BL MS Cotton Vespasian F ix, f. 122a–b, dating from the late fifteenth century. The volume contains items mostly dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It comes from a different, plainer manuscript than its near contemporary, BL MS Additional 48005.
London, BL MS Additional 48005 (Yelverton 6) f. 97a–b, late fifteenth century. Professionally written with ornate initials at the beginning of each paragraph, contains three fragments from the tract but not the beginning. It could be the original from which the two following manuscript fragments were copied. The leaves are stuck into the volume and are not part of the original binding.
London, BL MS Cotton Julius F vi, ff. 269a–271b, late fifteenth/early sixteenth centuries. This bears two copyist's observations, ‘Hic desunt multa’, f. 271a, and ‘Alia multa hic desunt’, f. 271b, showing that this version was incomplete at an early stage.
London, BL MS Lansdowne 205, ff. 137b–138a, 1581. ‘A volume of heraldical and historical collections formerly belonging to Elias Ashmole Esq.’ An inscription at the beginning provides the original provenance: ‘The true copie of certayne leves that had ben torn out of a booke written as it shulde seeme by the hand in the days of king Edward the fourth on the behalf and in favour of the house of Lancastre against the said king.
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- Sir John Fortescue and the Governance of England , pp. 311 - 321Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018