Extent: 52 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 140 (127 x 90) mm.

Date Created: 1375 [inferred] - 1425 [inferred]

Physical Description

Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment) + 52 + ii (modern parchment); 1-3¹⁰, 4⁴, 5¹⁰, 6⁸; catchwords at the bottom of fol. 10v, 20v, 30v, 44v. Layout: Written in 26 long lines, below top line; ruled in light brown ink. Decoration: Five historiated initials with gold illumination and green, slate, blue, brown, red, and black paint mark the beginnings of each text (fol. 1r, 20r, 29r, 30v, and 35r). The scenes depict human figures in public and private intellectual discourse. The third of these initials (fol. 29r) depicts a scribe or author at work on a text at a writing desk with a book stand holding another book (closed) at eye level. Each of these initials is accompanied by an intricate and colorful border. The first border (fol. 1r) encloses the entire page, the others fill two to three of the margins of the page. These borders depict scenes with bird, dragon, angel, human, stag, and hare subjects, and depicts hunting and music making activities. Blue initials with red flourishes throughout, though a few initials remain without their flourishes though space was left for them (fol. 2v). Blue paragraph marks with red flourishes. Possible damage to border illustration at the bottom of fol. 1r, where the left arm of the principle subject is obscured.

Binding

Rebound in modern goatskin, 1992.

Script

Written in Semitextualis script. There are numerous corrections in line and in margin in another hand. There are several maniculae, some with elongated forefinger (fol. 5r, 10r).

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