London, British Library, Harley 3316
[MSPART1]
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General information
| Folios | 105 |
| Folio notes: | The MS is palpably incomplete. Jung also notes a missing folio after f. 51. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | ?1450 to 1500 |
| Date notes | Jung (1996, 343) simply gives the date as 'XVe s.', but the hand suggests the second half of the century. |
| Place(s) of production | France |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | |
| Explicit | |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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| Condition: | |
Structure
| Collation: | 1-1010 116 |
| Quire structure: | There is a missing folio after f. 51, but the modern numbering misses this. |
| Quire marks: | |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | |
Physical description
| General description: | A plain, rather poor quality MS with no decoration or rubrication. The first word of each paragraph is double size and in a textualis script. |
| General illustration: | |
| General decoration: | |
| Evidence of readership: | There are quite frequent annotations, but some are doodles that do not seem to have much to do with the text. |
| Foliations description: | |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | The position of the text block is erratic. |
| Page sampled | 20r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 330x230 (mm) |
| Justification | 282x160 (mm) |
| Columns | 1mm between columns |
| Lines | 48 |
| Rubrication | None. The first word of each paragraph is written in a larger script. The beginning and end of chapters are frequently rewritten. |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (9) |
| Folio range | From 1 to 105 |
| Date | ?1450 to 1500 |
| Scribe description: | A legible and regular cursive script. |
| Notes | |