Poem by John Page on the Siege of Rouen
Reference code
MSS/0278
Title
Poem by John Page on the Siege of Rouen
Date
c 1418; transcribed 1812
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iii + 42.
Small folio.
Brown paper over board, with vellum spine.
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.
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.
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
Language
Middle English