Berkeley, Bancroft Library, 107
[Part 1]
General information
| Folios | None |
| Language | Language object (3) |
| Approx. date | c. 1275 to 1310 |
| Date notes | The calendar in the first three folios was added at a later date. The writing suggests a date at the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th c. Digital Scriptorium confirms that the calendar was not originally part of the MS, but is contemporary. |
| Place(s) of production | Northern France |
| First words of second recto folio | |
| First words of last recto folio | |
| Incipit | |
| Explicit | |
Material
| Material: | Material object (4) |
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Structure
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Physical description
| No. of illustrations: | 16 |
| General illustration: | Sixteen roundels decorated with gold with signs of the zodiac and depictions of monthly occupations (Digital Scriptorium). |
| General decoration: | Painted initials decorated with gold on squared grounds of blue and red; calendar entries in red, blue, and brown (Digital Scriptorium). |
| Evidence of readership: | French poem in three stanzas, each ending with the line 'du bon Briant de France conestable', added in a 14th-c. hand to the verso of f. iii (Digital Scriptorium). |
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Mise en page
| Description 1 | |
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| Layout | None |
| Page dimensions | 298x203 (mm) |
| Justification | (mm) |
| Columns | 2mm between columns |
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| Writing above top line? | False |
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Hand(s)
| Level of Execution: | Execution object (4) |
| Script | Script object (4) |
| Folio range | From i to iii |
| Date | c. 1275 to 1310 |
| Scribe description: | Northern textualis, mixed two-compartment 'a' with open upper compartment and double bow 'a', 'e' without tongue, 8-shaped 'g',round 's' in final position, vertical stroke of 't' extends above the headstroke, 'v' in initial position. |
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