A Holograph Copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Holograph Copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes

AU - Mooney, Linne Ruth

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The focus of this article is the British Library manuscript Royal 17 D.XVIII, a copy of Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes. I here argue first, on paleographic, codicological, and linguistic grounds, that this manuscript is written by the hand of the author Thomas Hoccleve; second, that the text of the Regiment in this manuscript represents a revised version of the poem written in 1412–13, in which the author had made alterations reflecting the changed circumstances of himself, of his dedicatee, Henry of Derby, and of the country a year or two after the completion and first dissemination of the poem; and third, that this manuscript was in fact the copy given to John of Lancaster, later duke of Bedford, to whom a balade written at the end may be addressed.

AB - The focus of this article is the British Library manuscript Royal 17 D.XVIII, a copy of Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes. I here argue first, on paleographic, codicological, and linguistic grounds, that this manuscript is written by the hand of the author Thomas Hoccleve; second, that the text of the Regiment in this manuscript represents a revised version of the poem written in 1412–13, in which the author had made alterations reflecting the changed circumstances of himself, of his dedicatee, Henry of Derby, and of the country a year or two after the completion and first dissemination of the poem; and third, that this manuscript was in fact the copy given to John of Lancaster, later duke of Bedford, to whom a balade written at the end may be addressed.

U2 - 10.1353/sac.2011.0032

DO - 10.1353/sac.2011.0032

M3 - Article

SN - 0190-2407

VL - 33

SP - 263

EP - 296

JO - Studies in the Age of Chaucer

JF - Studies in the Age of Chaucer

IS - n/a

ER -