Siege of Rouen. Poem by John Page
Reference code
MSS/0278
Title
Siege of Rouen. Poem by John Page
Date
1418; transcribed 1812
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iii + 42. Small folio. Brown paper over board, with vellum spine.
Scope and content
Poem by John Page on the siege of Rouen, 1418, Written temp. Hen. V, transcribed from a mid 15th century source, Bodl. Lib., MS e Mus. 124 (S.C. 3562); transcribed June 1812. Middle English. Communicated by letter, 27 June 1823, by the Rev. John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824), read 27 Nov. 1823, and published in Archaeologia, 21 (1827), 43-78; see also ibid., 22 (1829), 350-98, for the publication by Sir Frederic Madden (from BM Harley MS 2256) of text missing from the Bodleian source.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/278