Late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century manuscript miscellanies

: The sources and contexts of MS Balliol 354.

Abstract

MS Balliol 354 was compiled by Richard Hill, an early sixteenth-century London grocer. It is a paper volume with most of its pages measuring approximately 292 x 108 mm, although there are also 8 shorter leaves after fol.143.1 Medieval manuscripts such as Hill's are often referred to as "holster books" because they are of a suitable size to be carried in a holster, and much has been written on their association with minstrels and the oral transmission of poetry. Hill's volume, however, is also of a standard sixteenth-century account book size that could have been purchased either ready bound or as separate quires at the stationers' shops of sixteenth-century London.

Date of Award	Jul 2000
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Queen's University Belfast
Supervisor	John Thompson (Supervisor)