(Q43713)
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William, de Wadington, active 13th century
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Decorated initials--England--14th century
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between 1340 and 1360
14. century
1340Gregorian
1360Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 205 : parchment ; 167 x 240 mm
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Title from printed catalog
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Bastard anglicana.
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Layout: 110 2-48 512(+4, f. 38) 6-78 8(ff. 64-67, uncertain structure; f. 67 cut in half) 9-108 116(+2, f. 85) 128 136(+3, f. 101) 14-168 1710(through f. 139) 18-218 228(+6, f. 177) 236 248 2512(-12); quires 18-25 should have been bound between quires 8 and 9. Catchwords on quires 1 and 2; quires signed in roman numerals, i-vii, then in letters, a-i for the section of ff. 68-139, then in roman...
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Span folios: ff. 1-205v.
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Other Decoration: Opening initials, f. 1, 5-line blue, and f. 68, 4-line parted red and washed-out blue, both with rough red flourishing; 3- and 2-line initials, alternating red and blue, some with simple void designs; alternating red and blue paragraph marks.
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The texts have been carefully corrected throughout with the corrections entered in the margins and the erased areas prepared with chalk for new writing. Notes, possibly contemporary: f. 67v, "expensis augusti prima septimana xiiii s. xi d."; f. 140, written below each column and erased, "Hic deficit in __?___aria" (has been read "libraria"). Running headlines and other notes added in the...
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Assigned Date: s. XIVmed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
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On f. 139v between the end of the text and the prayer a contemporary erased inscription in the hand of the text reads: "A Johan __?___ li Romance." On f. 1, the early or mid-fifteenth century ownership note of the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary in York: "liber Monasterii beate Marie Eboracensis emptus per fratrem Clementem Warthwyk, qui Alienaverit Anathema" (Ker, MLGB, 217); also on f. 1, a...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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