(Q43401)
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Johannes Hispanus Flos decretorum ; Martin of Troppau Margarita Decreti ; and other titles
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Simon de Wederore
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Ashridge Priory
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Figure initials--England--14th century
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Illuminations (paintings)--England--14th century
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between 1350 amd 1375
14. century
1350Gregorian
1375Gregorian
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Extent: ff. i + i + 296 + i : parchment ; 260 x 400 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Textura semi-quadrata.
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Inscribed date: 1368, June 29
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Written in 1368 by Simon de Wederore of Tring, Hertfordshire, a brother of the house of the Boni Homines at Ashridge.
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Layout: 112 210(-8) 3-414 512(this irregularity noted, f. 61v, "xii folia et vi folia in uno [quaterno]") 6-914 10-1512 16-2214 and 9 leaves bound too tightly to collate. Catchwords in lower right corner, usually in a frame. 2 columns of 36 lines with frame rules in brown ink, and line rules in lead, often doubled to delineate the space for the minims. Double rules to the left of each column...
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Decoration: At the opening of the prologue, f. 32, a 10-line miniature, the width of one column, showing the author as a monk in black praying before the Virgin and Child.
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Other Decoration: 2-line initials, blue, with red flourishing, with infilling often of grotesque or human faces, which occasionally pertain to the subject (e.g. on f. 103, "ermofrodites," 2 faces, 1 male and 1 female; on f. 202, "planctus," a man crying; on f. 228, "rex," a king); animal head regularly just outside letter. The lower margin in the index, ff. 22-31, decorated with purple "saws...
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A note in red in the upper margin of f. 18, s. XVmed-ex, partially cropped: Bartholomeus de casibus decretorum multo plenior et apertior est ut patet intuenti, habetur in librario.
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Assigned Date: s. XIV3/4.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/21/2012.
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A note in English on f. 294v, counting the blank leaves at the end of the volume, is dated 22 September 1591 and signed R. Combe and E. Combe. "R. Combe" may be the Richard Combes (nephew of Thomas Waterhouse, rector of Ashridge at the time of the Dissolution), to whom Queen Elizabeth (then princess) granted the land and buildings of Ashridge in 1557; the property was purchased by Sir Thomas...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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