Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a portion of Johannes de Deo's Liber Poenitentiarius
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a rounded gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are spaces with guide letters for 2-line initials, but they have not been added; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; guides for the rubricator are in the margins in light brown ink; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment of Johannes de Deo, Liber poenitentiarius
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in an abbreviated Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. F. 55v is badly written by a contemporary hand., Decoration: Red headings, expect on on ff. 14v-21r and 39v to the end, where they are not executed or are replaced by headings in brown ink written by later hands. Red stroking of majuscules. 2-line (3-line on ff. 1v and 10r) red plain initials, often with very long and developed penwork extensions in the same color in the margins or in the intercolumnar space. F. 55v is undecorated., Binding: Original binding of red pigskin over rounded wooden boards, sewn on two split leather thongs. The covers are blind-tooled with a frame and a St Andrew's cross traced in fillets. Plaited headbands. Remnants of a strap fixed to the rear board. Flyleaf cut from a 13th century parchment manuscript., and In Latin.
