Title from printed catalog Support: Paper. Script: Secretary; Display script. Layout: 23-29 long lines, frame ruled in lead with no ruling across bottom of text frame; round prick marks in upper and lower margins. Collation beginning with flyleaves: 112(-1; 2 is the pastedown) 2-312 412(plus a quire of 4, ff. 27-30, between 2 and 3) 5-712 812(-12; 11 is the pastedown). Catchwords variously on the recto and verso of most leaves, written in the right lower margin... Watermark(s): Cockatrice, similar to Heawood 838; Armoiries, similar to Briquet 1369; Aigle, similar to Briquet 124; unidentified watermark. Span folios: ff. 1-86v. Other Decoration: Marginal notes in the hand of the scribe identifying the speakers as "Fortescu" and "The lerned Man." Assigned Date: s. XVIIin. Former pressmark, EL 1131. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/22/2012. At the foot of the spine, written upside down in a seventeenth century hand, "Fortescue." On f. i: a cancelled pressmark, "G.6" and a later pressmark, "K.5/6," both in the hand of John Egerton (1622-86), 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, and, in modern pencil, the Bridgewater pressmark "522" corrected to "1131." The current Bridgewater pressmark, "34 C 18," on a paper label on the front pastedown.
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