Scribal sample sheet

Description

Title: Scribal sample sheet
Published / Created: [ca. 1475-1500]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript, probably in a single hand, containing seven discontinuous lines of text in different gothic display scripts in black and red inks, probably produced as a sample sheet of a scribe's work
Description: In Latin.
Script: each line in a different gothic display script.
Decoration: in red and black ink.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 206 mm x 284 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Germany
Subject (Topic): Handwriting
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scribes
Subjects: Handwriting > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scribes > Germany > Early works to 1800
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Scribal Sample Sheet (Takamiya MS 107). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.