Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 27944 | |
Title: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
Author: | Trevisa |
Contents: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
Language: | English and Latin |
Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
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Dialect: | Catalogue dates beginning of 15th century. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 1 paper matches pastedown + 1 parchment flyleaf + folio 1 as flyleaf + 2-335 + 335-338 as flyleaves + 2 parchment flyleaves (original) + 1 paper matches pastedown |
Pagination: | Modern pencil, arabic upper outer corner recto. |
Quiring: | 8 |
Signatures: | None survive |
Catchwords: | Below right-hand column; Hand A copies a little to the left of frame line and leaves plain or surrounds with simple box; Hand B runs text up to right frame with scroll surround, sometimes with simple triangles at each end or more elaborate with folds and highlighted in red; Hand C centres catchword under second column and may have been added later. |
Page Size: | 418 x 280 |
Frame: | Hand A = 4 x vertical, 2 x horizontal, ruled within, grey-brown plummet Hand B = 4 x horizontal, 2 x vertical, ruled within, fine grey plummet Hand C = 4 x vertical, 4 x horizontal, enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within, grey plummet. |
Writing Space: | 2 columns 300 x 85 = overall 300 x 190 |
Marginal Headings: | By scribes in red preceded by blue paraphs |
Running Titles: | In rubric, 'liber' on verso and roman numeral on recto also preceded by blue paraphs. |
Table of Contents: | Hand A on ff2-7v |
Borders: | Full bar border on f8r including central bar; blue, green, orange, pink; other bar borders of gold, blue, pink with white, darker purple, green. |
Historiated Initials: | f8r, pink, white highlighting |
Illuminated Initials: | Each book begins with 7-line initial, pink with white highlights, gold ground, blue, pink, orange with white |
Paragraph Marks: | Blue and red |
Flourished Initials: | 2-line initials alternating blue with red pen-work and gold with purple pen-work |
Other Names (not owners): | Verses on f1v added by Julius Glanville of Lincoln's Inn in 1668; f337v noted gift of the book by William Radcliffe of Stanford to John Cookes, LLD |
Miscellaneous Info: | Hand A's scribal mark may be on f197r in upper outer corner. Hand A is Gower Scribe or Scribe D. |
Further Information: | Additional Catalogue for 1861-1875 Add. Mss. 24,027-29909, pp. 382-383 |