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Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.15. Mosser: Tc2.
24 quires of twelve (288 folios), one quire of eight (the sixth), one quire of fourteen (quire 13), one quire of four (quire 19) and one of six (quire 20): 320 folios.
The first two leaves are missing from the first quire (folios 1-2); leaves six and seven are missing from quire 2 (folios 18-19); the first leaf from quire 3 (folio 25; a stub); the eighth leaf from quire 12 (folio 136); the last five leaves from quire 17 (folios 198-202; two stubs); the last leaf from quire 19 (folio 218); the last leaf from quire 20 (folio 224); the last leaf of the last quire (folio 320).
Four paper leaves were prefixed to the manuscript, apparently in C16. These are folios 1-4 in the traditional foliation; a1r-a4v in our system. GP 1-55 is copied in a post-medieval hand in folios a3v through a4v in these supplemental leaves, presumably copied from the now missing original first two folios.
GP 1-55 (folios 1-2; apparently recopied on a3v-a4r); KT 113-240 (folios 18-19); WBT 1022-1088 (folio 136); [PR L25 TT] L28 (folio 224; most of 223v is blank after L24, TM begins on folio 225r, with space for L28 only). No apparent loss of text for folio 25, folios 198-202 (between end FK/NU), folio 218, folio 320 (RT finished on 319v).
Folio 11 (a singleton, following the loss of folio 2) is reversed, so that 11v precedes 11r. Note classic eyeskip loss of line 290-303, on the rhyme sworn/biforn. There are connections with Ch/Ha4: KT 1822-1/1822-2; loss of lines KT 1154-59, with 'corage' added to 1160 to make the rhyme with 1153 'rage' (Ha4 only). Apparent catchword at base of 74v?; catchword at base 80v repeated in its cartouche on 81r. More confusion in PA On 290v: Go from mid PA 273 to mid PA 687; 291r: 702 to 276 whence the text continues regularly to 686 on fol. 306v., when it leaps to 703. So somehow a whole page was misplaced. There is a problem with the rewriting of GP 1-55 in folios a3v-a4v. We have GP 1-27 on a3v, 28-42 on a4r, 43-55 on a4v. Solopova comments (GP CD-ROM) "These lines are repeated on the verso of the next folio, f. 4v, in what seems to be the same hand." It is not clear what this next folio (f. 4v?) is: the following folio seems to be what we number as folio 3, beginning with GP 56 (folio 5 in the traditional numbering,) while in the traditional numbering, folio 4v is actually the first writing of thsee lines.
Note that here all missing pages are included in the traditional foliation except folios 25 (a stub) and 198-200, 218, 224 (no stubs). The traditional foliation includes the two stubs at 201-202, but not the missing pages at 198-200 which lack stubs. The treatment of the opening pages is also ambiguous: the four pages added are numbered as if they were part of the ms, so making the first page carrying CT "5": in fact, this would originally have been the third page of the MS, so should be "3" in our numbering. Folio 126 is skipped in the original foliation; there is no loss of text or leaves here.
| Traditional (Mosser) | New CT foliation |
| 1-4 | a1-a4 |
| 5-19 | 3-17 |
| [20-21] | [18-19] |
| 22-26 | 20-24 |
| 27-125 | 26-124 |
| [126] | [126] |
| 127-137 | 125-135 |
| [138] | [136] |
| 139-199 | 137-197 |
| [200-201] | [198-202] |
| 202-216 | 203-217 |
| 217-221 | 219-223 |
| 222-316 | 225-319 |