Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.3 | |
MS Appellation: | SC 12822 |
Title: | Astrolabe |
Author: | Chaucer |
Contents: | Astrolabe |
Language: | English |
Date Range: | 1425-1450 |
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: | ii + 48 + ii |
Quiring: | 8 |
Signatures: | ai-aiiii, bi-biiii etc |
Catchwords: | None |
Page Size: | 185 x 140 |
Frame: | Ink ruling with pricking visible in places. |
Writing Space: | 115 x 85 |
Marginal Headings: | The usual red ink rubrics for titles and headings. |
Title by Scribe: | 'Astrolabium' in rubric by the scribe |
Borders: | On first folio, gold, blue, red, green |
Illuminated Initials: | Gold initials with spray decoration in blue, red and green |
Paragraph Marks: | Gold, blue and red |
Further Information: | Catal. Codd. Mss. Bibl. Bodl. Macray, W. D., pp.2-3 |