(Q21519)
Statements
1400-1499
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 72 x 220 mm; parchment
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The text dates to the thirteenth century; the drawings were added later.
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This image shows a fifteenth-century drawing of a king in what was once the lower margin of a manuscript leaf. The text on the reverse in an early-fourteenth century hand is from an unidentified legal treatise. The king may be one of the three Magi. He holds an urn and points to a star as he turns to look over his shoulder, possibly at his two companions.
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This image shows a fifteenth-century drawing of a ship with a crow's nest and rudder in what was once the lower margin of a manuscript leaf. The text, written above and on the reverse by an early-fourteenth century hand, is from an unidentified legal treatise.
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This image shows a fifteenth-century drawing of a cross pattee with two horses. The cross and horse motif may have been a heraldic device or insignia of the fifteenth-century owner of this manuscript. The text above and on the reverse, written by an early fourteenth-century scribe, is from an unidentified legal treatise.
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Script: Gothic bookhand
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Contributor: David Kalish
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Cataloger: Dot Porter
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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