Manuscript roll. Title from printed catalog. Layout: 167 long lines per sheet; ruled in brown pen. Script: Written in cursica anglicana formata. Decoration: Roll begins with a miniature of Christ on the Cross with the instruments of torture, accompanied by Mary and John the Evangelist. On the left, the mocking Jew; on the right, an unidentified seminude figure. Above, Christ or God the Father seated, accompanied by two standing figures with nimbi, the right one female, all deteriorated, upper right corner entirely missing. Rubic begins... Origin: Written in England in a provincial scriptorium in about 1400. Erased writing on the verso of first two sheets, text not identified. Formerly in the library of Reginald Cholmondeley, Condover Hall, Shropshire.
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