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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 391, Part VI
 
Title:Miscellany of scientific manuscript and printed items with Astrolabe
Author:Chaucer
Contents:Astrolabe
Language:English
Date Range:1400-1425
Scribal Hands:
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Material:Parchment
No of Folios:12
Quiring:1(8), 2 (6), (2 leaves excised after f11).
Signatures:Remnants of Arabic numerals in black ink on first four verso leaves. Leaves of the second quire are torn at the bottom and nothing remains.
Catchwords:None
Page Size:230 x 150
Frame:No obvious ruled frame
Writing Space:160 x 110
Borders:First folio has four-sided border. Colours pink, blue, gold, white. Circles at corners and oblong boxes down sides and on bottom.Two heads of what look like dogs in lower border.
Illuminated Initials:There is one 3-line capital in blue, pink, gold and white at the beginning of the text.
Paragraph Marks:Red
Flourished Initials:Blue with red pen-work.
Miscellaneous Info:Structure of text defined by blue penwork initials with border flourishing. Diagrams in mixture of red and brown ink. Opening 'Lite Lowys my sone' has the initial capital L tied in to the decorated 4-sided border.
Further Information:Seymour notes: Facsimile of f1 is the title page of R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, vol. V, Chaucer and Messahalla on the Astrolabe (1929).
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP