Manuscript Description England, London, British Library MS Harley 614 | |
Title: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
Author: | Trevisa's translation of Bartholomeus |
Contents: | Trevisa, translation of Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum |
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: | 3 new paper flyleaves match pastedown + 1 older paper flyleaf with 'HARL 614 stamped at top recto + 1-242 + 1 older paper flyleaf + 3 newer paper flyleaves match pastedown |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corners recto, 1-242. |
Quiring: | 8s |
Signatures: | Signatures almost all survive, first 4 leaves of each quire in lower outer corner, none in first 4 leaves which are the table of contents, f5r begins a.j with the letter above the roman numbers; continues to z which looks like yogh and then tyronian 'et' in next quire (beginning f188) followed by upper case A (f196) and so on to 'ff' over 'iiij' on f239r. |
Catchwords: | By the scribe below right column of text, with red sleigh under. |
Page Size: | 410 x 290 |
Frame: | 4 x vertical for 2 columns, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within; no ruling for running titles or catchwords; pricking survives on a few leaves for example f181. |
Writing Space: | 2 columns, 313 x 84-88 + 15 + 83-90, in all 313 x 185 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Explicit on f242rb, 'Explicit tractus [sic] qui vocatur Bartholomeus de proprietatibus Rerum' at very bottom of second column on f242, rubric, by scribe. |
Marginal Headings: | Red chapter headings written into space left at end of previous chapter, a title plus capitula and roman number. |
Running Titles: | Red running titles giving Liber and number top each page. |
Table of Contents: | Table of contents in 3 columns by main scribe, giving Libri and then for each item of the book capitula numbers, ff1-4vc. |
Borders: | On f5r bar border down left side and sprays across top and bottom margins, mushroom flowers and leaves, gold balls and green-washed squiggles, in blue, pink, green, red and a purple-like color possibly oxidized. |
Historiated Initials: | On f5r a 6-line pink initial with incised edges and white highlighting on gold ground, historiated with picture of St Christopher carrying Christ across stream. |
Illuminated Initials: | 5-line gold initials on blue and rose grounds with white highlights, smaller sprays of opposing green-washed squiggles and gold balls. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs and red underlining. |
Flourished Initials: | 2-line blue lombard initials with red penwork in usual postage stamp design. |
Other Names (not owners): | On f242r right margin, added by later (17th c?) hand, 'Anno 1397 / Thomas Lord Berkley / annorum 47 on f1r, upper margin added by later hand 'P Saunders' (16th c?) and shelf mark 43 B 3 with line under and below that '614' and to right pencil marks shelfmark as 16 over 1 with F to right of it. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Red for chapter headings sometimes quite washed out, almost salmony-pink, for example on f173. |
Further Information: | Harley Catalogue |