Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e. Musaeo 16 | |
Title: | De Proprietatibus Rerum |
Author: | Trevisa |
Contents: | Trevisa's De Proprietatibus Rerum |
Language: | English and Latin |
Date Range: | Mid-15th century? |
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. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 1 paper flyleaf + text block ff1-310 + 1 paper flyleaf |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper outer corners recto, 1-310. |
Quiring: | 12s |
Signatures: | Signatures in bold dark ink, count leaves in quire in arabic numbers preceded by letters but scribe doesn't use the letters to count quires, instead a quire might have (eg ff214-18, +1, A2, B3, C4, D5, E6; but this one more regular than most), looks like scribe's hand and ink; another set of signatures below this further into outer corner, faint grey ink may be originals by supervisor? Does use letters to count quires, eg the quires of 214-18 has 'Z' in extreme lower corner, numbers cropped. |
Catchwords: | By scribe centred under second column, last leaf verso each quire, in well-drawn scrolls sometimes shaded with red (eg f192v). |
Page Size: | 405 x 268 |
Frame: | 4 x vertical for 2 columns, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within columns; fine grey lines; no pricking survives. |
Writing Space: | 318 x 192 in 2 columns, 88 + 19 + 88 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Since acephalous and atelous, no overall; just book incipits and explicits. |
Marginal Headings: | By scribe(s), rubric in space ruled for text, probably written as went along, eg 'De Argento Capitulum vij' on f171ra. Rubric chapter headings in text block. |
Running Titles: | Rubric book numbers as running titles, 'liber' on versos and number on rectos; red underlining of Latin, red touching on initials. |
Borders: | New books begin with full bar borders in blue, rose, orange, green and gold. |
Illuminated Initials: | New books begin with 7-line blue and rose initials with highlighting, foliage patterns on gold ground; 2-4-line gold initials on parti-coloured blue and rose grounds with white highlighting, sprays of opposed tiny green leaves and gold balls. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red paraph marks |
Miscellaneous Info: | Note many drawings in margins, including a whole set of animals in the portion of MS describing them. Begins imperfectly in book 5, ends imperfectly in book 19. |
Further Information: | Summary Catalogue |