Abstract

This article introduces an unknown personal holograph manuscript by Thomas Hoccleve: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O. 7. 43. The new manuscript, only recently digitized, has never been associated with Hoccleve; in fact, it has lived under the radar of literary scholarship for the last six hundred years. The manuscript is here described, then it is demonstrated palaeographically that it is written in Hoccleve’s hand; the contents are discussed with some of the implications of this discovery. In conclusion, it is suggested that the manuscripts bequeathed in 1738 by Roger Gale to Trinity College could preserve four others that the poet may have owned, raising the probability that the Gale bequest represents a portion of Hoccleve’s private library.

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