London, British Library, Additional 25884
General information
| Folios | 3851 backend papers |
| Folio notes: | Modern folio numbers, in arabic numerals. |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | ?1380 to 1400 |
| Date notes | Jung 1996, 342. |
| Place(s) of production | ParisOltrogge 1989, 269; June 1996, 342. |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | |
| Explicit | |
Related MS
| RelationshipType object (12) | Manuscript object (53)Manuscript object (282)Manuscript object (285) |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
| Watermark: | |
| Condition: | Good condition throughout. |
Structure
| Collation: | 19 28 34 41 5-118 11-139 147 15-188 196 20-428 433 44-458 467 47-518 |
| Quire structure: | Although quaternions predominate, the quire structure of this MS is irregular. Description taken from Oltrogge (1989, 269), but easily verifiable from the catchwords. |
| Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (18) |
| Catchwords: | |
| Catchword disposition: | MSCatchwordDisposition object (14) |
Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 21 |
| General illustration: | After a half-page, double-column opening illustration showing the Creation, there are 20 miniatures interspersed throughout the MS. For details see Oltrogge 1989, 270-1. The illustrations are rather rudimentary. |
| General decoration: | The opening page has a simple floral border. Thereafter paragraphs begin with decorated initials (height: 2 lines) alternating red and green, with gold lettering. After illustrations, which are often at the beginning of sections, there are larger decorated initials (height: 5-6 lines), some of which extend into partial borders. |
| Evidence of readership: | There are very occasional marginal annotations or corrections (in French) and notas. |
| Foliations description: | |
Mise en page
| Description 1 | This MS has a particularly generous lower margin. The ruling is only faintly visible, and on a very few pages. |
| Page sampled | 36r |
| Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
| Page dimensions | 368-280 (mm) |
| Justification | 236x185 (mm) |
| Columns | 220mm between columns |
| Lines | 40Line ruling present in Colours object (6) (RulingMaterials object (3) ) |
| Rubrication | Chapters are rubricated throughout. |
| Writing above top line? | False |
| Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (3) |
| Script | Script object (12) |
| Folio range | From 1 to 385 |
| Date | ?1380 to 1400 |
| Scribe description: | A clear cursive script with the tails of 'f' and straight 's' extending below the base line. Almost no abbreviations. Frequent use of 'y'. |
| Notes | |