Manuscript Description London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 256 | |
Title: | Fall of Princes |
Author: | Lydgate |
Contents: | Fall of Princes |
Language: | English |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 180 |
Pagination: | Modern numbering of quires in lower right corner of first folios, pencil, eg '13' on f96; modern foliation in upper outer corners, pencil. |
Quiring: | 8 |
Catchwords: | By the scribe with flourishes from the descenders. |
Page Size: | 444 x 280 |
Frame: | 4 x vertical enclosing columns, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines. Ruling within columns in purple ink. |
Writing Space: | 317 x 82 |
Borders: | Sprays form border-like decoration |
Illuminated Initials: | 7-line blue and rose on gold ground. |
Flourished Initials: | 3-line gold with purple penwork decoration. |
Other Names (not owners): | On f180rb : 'Finis tocius libri / Of your charite pray for the writer of this book' written by scribe. bottom f1, 'Gl' or 'Gh' script and ink similar to, and possibly by, scribe; f280v, added by another hand, 'virtus laudata crescit' |
Further Information: | James catalogue, 403-4. |