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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 |