Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 29901 | |
Title: | Heraldic Texts |
Contents: | Heraldic Texts: precedents, etc. relating to heralds, kings of arms, marshall and constable. |
Language: | English and Latin |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 1 newer paper added at rebinding, matches pastedown + 1 blank leaf probably original + 2 framed but otherwise blank leaves + 87 written leaves + 5 frames but otherwise blank (and unnumbered) + 2 blank probably original + 1 matches pastedown |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corners recto. |
Quiring: | 1-5(16), 6(12) |
Catchwords: | By the scribe, centred in lower margin on the verso of the last folio of each quire with red sleigh under and red highlighting of some initials. |
Page Size: | 282 x 197 |
Frame: | 2 x vertical 4 x horizontal; ruled within in brown/purple ink |
Writing Space: | 122 x 105 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Red highlights or shadowing of initials. |
Marginal Headings: | By the scribe in dark ink in spaces above or below the beginnings or ends of texts with blank lines on either side of them. Some red highlighting. |
Table of Contents: | By the scribe on f87r 'In isto volumine continet primus', with a list of eleven items with arabic numbers before them in a list. |
Other Names (not owners): | No names. |
Further Information: | Additional catalogue; Mooney article in Edwards, Gillespie and Hanna. |