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Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 27944 | |
| Title: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
| Author: | Trevisa |
| Contents: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Date Range: | 1400-1425 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                |
| Dialect: | Catalogue dates beginning of 15th century. |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 1 paper matches pastedown + 1 parchment flyleaf + folio 1 as flyleaf + 2-335 + 335-338 as flyleaves + 2 parchment flyleaves (original) + 1 paper matches pastedown |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil, arabic upper outer corner recto. |
| Quiring: | 8 |
| Signatures: | None survive |
| Catchwords: | Below right-hand column; Hand A copies a little to the left of frame line and leaves plain or surrounds with simple box; Hand B runs text up to right frame with scroll surround, sometimes with simple triangles at each end or more elaborate with folds and highlighted in red; Hand C centres catchword under second column and may have been added later. |
| Page Size: | 418 x 280 |
| Frame: | Hand A = 4 x vertical, 2 x horizontal, ruled within, grey-brown plummet Hand B = 4 x horizontal, 2 x vertical, ruled within, fine grey plummet Hand C = 4 x vertical, 4 x horizontal, enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within, grey plummet. |
| Writing Space: | 2 columns 300 x 85 = overall 300 x 190 |
| Marginal Headings: | By scribes in red preceded by blue paraphs |
| Running Titles: | In rubric, 'liber' on verso and roman numeral on recto also preceded by blue paraphs. |
| Table of Contents: | Hand A on ff2-7v |
| Borders: | Full bar border on f8r including central bar; blue, green, orange, pink; other bar borders of gold, blue, pink with white, darker purple, green. |
| Historiated Initials: | f8r, pink, white highlighting |
| Illuminated Initials: | Each book begins with 7-line initial, pink with white highlights, gold ground, blue, pink, orange with white |
| Paragraph Marks: | Blue and red |
| Flourished Initials: | 2-line initials alternating blue with red pen-work and gold with purple pen-work |
| Other Names (not owners): | Verses on f1v added by Julius Glanville of Lincoln's Inn in 1668; f337v noted gift of the book by William Radcliffe of Stanford to John Cookes, LLD |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Hand A's scribal mark may be on f197r in upper outer corner. Hand A is Gower Scribe or Scribe D. |
| Further Information: | Additional Catalogue for 1861-1875 Add. Mss. 24,027-29909, pp. 382-383 |