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Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 29250 | |
| Title: | Astrolabe |
| Author: | Chaucer |
| Contents: | Astrolabe as first item followed by two printed incunables, 'Ephemerides siue Almanach perpetuus' and 'Amicus Medicorum Magistri Joannis Ganiueti: cum opusculo quod Celi enarrant propter principium eius inseribitur et cum abbreuiatione Abrahe Aueneezre de luminaribus et diebus creticis'. |
| Language: | English |
| Date Range: | 1450-1475 |
| 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: | iv modern paper flyleaves + viii older paper flyleaves + 3-26 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil upper outer corner recto. |
| Quiring: | 1-2(12) |
| Signatures: | None visible but manuscript much cropped. |
| Catchwords: | On f14v |
| Page Size: | 182 x 137 |
| Frame: | Square ruled in brownish grey; 2 x vertical and 2 x horizontal. |
| Writing Space: | 150 x 110 much trimmed |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'finis adest mete liber explicit ergo valete' on f26 |
| Marginal Headings: | Within the text in ink and hand of scribe and underlined in red ink. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Red with red underlining and red wavy lines as space-fillers. |
| Flourished Initials: | Red initials throughout with no flourishing. |
| Other Names (not owners): | On f26v is an elaborate mark which Seymour labels a cryptogram and in the bottom left corner in what seems to be the same ink is 'pouder deuke'. |
| Further Information: | Seymour I 107-108 |