Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
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MS. 6
Facetus
Contents:
Date of origin:15th century.
Place of origin:
Support:
Parchment codex.
Foliation:
Every folium, including the flyleaves, is numbered in the top right corner of the recto in lead in a modern hand.
Dimensions:155mm x 120mm (leaves), 115mm x 105mm (ruled space)
Collation:i 110 (-10) i
Script:Written in a littera gothica textualis media. Hand #1 is present from fols 1-5r, hand #2 on 5r-5v, hand #3 on 6r and hand #4, which becomes more cursive on 6v-9r. There are also marginal notes in a contemporary hand.
Binding:The manuscript is currently bound in acid-free paper. A nineteenth century binding in velvet over boards is preserved with the manuscript. The parchment flyleaves of the manuscript may have been the original binding.
Additions:Notes are added in the lower margins in a Gothic cursive hand. The same hand appears to be responsible for a the prologue to the Gospel of John on the back flyleaf. Another text in the same hand on the verso of the back flyleaf is illegible.
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