Folios | 2 |
Folio notes: | A single bifolium, damaged through use in binding. |
Language | Language object (48) |
Approx. date | ?1300 to 1349 |
Date notes | 'sec. XIVin?' (Cigni 2012, 256). Usage of 'v' and round 's' might suggest a date nearer the middle of the century. |
Place(s) of production | ItalyOn orthographical and palaeographical grounds. |
First words of second recto folio | |
First words of last recto folio | |
Incipit | [f. 1ra] acelí qui au roí auoit parle / |
Explicit | [f. 2vb] íj. damoiselles firent sus le ch(eualie)r // |
Material: | Material object (4) |
Watermark: | |
Condition: | Fairly good quality parchment, with stains and small holes from use in a binding. Some text on f. 2v is consequently illegible. |
Collation: | 2 |
Quire structure: | Two leaves of a bifolium that were separated and later re-attached. They probably once formed the 3rd and 6th leaves of a quaternion. |
Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (70) |
Catchwords: | |
Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (12) |
General illustration: | |
General decoration: | The chapter beginning f. 2vb is marked by a large (unfinished) initial in blue (height: 8 lines). Paragraphs open with plain initials in blue or red (height: 2 lines). Guide letters are visible. |
Evidence of readership: | |
Foliations description: | Modern foliation in pencil in the upper right corner of recto sides. |
Description 1 | |
Page sampled | f. 2r |
Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
Page dimensions | 288x208 (mm) |
Justification | 191x123 (mm) |
Columns | 211mm between columns Column ruling present in Colours object (5) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
Lines | 35Line ruling present in Colours object (5) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
Rubrication | none |
Writing above top line? | False |
Sample page layout: | |
Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
Script | Script object (1) |
Folio range | From 1ra to 2vb |
Date | ?1300 to 1375 |
Scribe description: | Features include: two-compartment 'a' (though upper bow often barely visible), short ascenders and descenders, use of both 'c' caudata and 3-shaped 'z', both tall and round 's' in final position, 'v' consistently used in initial position, 'y' without dot. The 'con' abbreviation appears with a very short tail. Tironian 'et' has a diagonal and wavy cross-stroke. |
Notes | |