Title from Digital Scriptorium. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana formata; Bastard anglicana. Layout: 18 28(-8, excised) 3-48 510 6-128 136(? -1 and 2 with loss of text; 5 is damaged; -6). Catchwords, most with a blue paragraph mark and one enclosed in a red ink frame. 37 lines of verse, ruled in lead; beginning with the fifth quire, most leaves with double bounding lines around the single-lined text frame. Span folios: ff. 1-100v. Other Decoration: Initials, 8- to 3-line, in blue, without ornamentation; guide letters in the margin. Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/9/2012. Written in England near the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border at the turn of the fourteenth century. Miscellaneous sixteenth century pen trials, including the following names: f. 73v, "Thomas Jhone"; f. 95v, "In my begynynge god be my good spede In grace & vertue allways to prosed. Chrystefer Byrkheade" ( IMEV 430.5 ); f. 98v, "Rycharde mynstrelley." On f. 100v, an inscription, s. XIX...
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