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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:
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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
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP