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blue flourishes; fol. 2v, 12-line sinuous 'I' design, set in margin with pen-work sprays. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers in red sometimes with rope-twist line markers, poss. in blue, filling out spaces in text; alternate red and

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and occasionally 3-line capitals, poss. blue, without further ornament. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter titles and numbers (roman numerals), poss. red, regularly penned in a slightly larger and more calligraphic script; paraphs, poss. red and/or blue provide textual subdivisions; scribal annotations

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Border Initials? 3-line blue initials flourished in red pen-work, alternate with red with gold initials flourished in brownish purple pen-work. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter titles in red, set against blue paraphs (no chapter numbers); alternate red and blue paraphs provide

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solid caps, prob. in red or blue. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings with numbers (numbers sometimes as side notes), prob. in red or blue, sometimes with spiral line markers, prob. in red or blue; double hyphens at ends of lines;

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Rubrication Chapter headings in red, with blue initial; lacking chapter numbers up until fol. 76r, 'capitulo cc. ii.', (Brie, 231:31-3); a paraph and 'capitulo' only, are penned after the heading from fol. 65v ff.; blue and red alternate paraphs provide

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Initials? Blue capitals, varying between nine and two lines, (9-line, sinuous 'I' form, cf. SOA, ms. 93), generally 3-line capitals; some spaces left unfilled (fols. 38v, 52v, 89r, 90r-103r). Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers in red with blue

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are predominantly one line, plain, in blue ink; fol. 8r, one line cap flourished; fols. 17r-154v two line caps in blue with red flourishing. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter titles and numbers (roman) in red; blue paraphs provide textual subdivisions; running

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blue) in margin and if the title takes up more than one line, bracketing on the right hand side connects the lines. At other points the script is set within the tangle of text, preceded by a paraph (poss.

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and 3-line). Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers poss. in blue, with one line caps; underlining of dates, but poss. not by rubricator; rubricated side notes, poss. in blue; hyphens at end of lines, poss. in red; rubrication unfinished:

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'small folio' in BL catalogue. Materials and writing support Parchment Writing Space N/A Border Initials? Initials completed in red and blue ink. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter titles in red ink. Annotation and Marginalia N/A Erasures? N/A Graffiti? Sgrafitti Style of

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Text begins with 4-line capital 'I', poss. blue, with white (untinctured) zig-zag design along the letter's stem, (cf. Sydney, Nicholson MS. 13). Second initial 3-line, poss. blue; subsequent initials 2-line, prob. red and blue. Fols 17r-32v (pp15-46) have blank spaces,

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numbers (roman numerals); paraphs mark chapter headings and textual subdivisions, poss. alternately red and blue, sometimes touched with gold, in pen-work box, poss. red or blue. A later hand (poss. late C15)adds running titles between the reigns of William the

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Parchment Writing Space 205mm x 125mm approx. Border Initials? 2-line initials, blue, with typical red pen-work decoration/sprays. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter titles and numbers (roman numerals) in red; blue paraphs provide textual subdivisions and are set beside the chapter number

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with the margin. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings, poss. in red or blue, with chapter numbers (roman numerals) parallel in margins, poss. colour; paraphs provide textual subdivisions poss. blue touched with red; some first letters of words also appear to

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Writing Space 235mm x 135mm Border Initials? 3-line initials, blue with decorative infilling and pen-work flourishes in red. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers in red; alternating red and blue paraphs (within text) provide textual subdivisions; catchwords set in

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a particular use of parchment. Writing Space 218mm x 136mm Border Initials? Three-line capitals in blue; 1st initial on fol. 1r decorated in red and blue geometric design. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings in red, indented from left and right

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with guide letters 4: two line capitals, poss. in blue flourished into margins; chapter headings poss. in red or blue 5: fol. 49: six line capital, flourished into margins, poss. in blue or red or both 6: fols 59r and

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standard blue letters with red boxes plus decoration (only extending over 1 line). The pen strokes off these are truncated. Any space at end of these summary descriptions of the contents of each section are filled with red and blue

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textual subdivisions (poss. blue), Latin phrases prob. penned in red ink. Item 2, scribes B and C, fols 1- 150v: chapter titles in red, copied in a markedly calligraphic hand; title marked by a paraph (poss. blue) with penwork ornament

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leaf decoration. Generally initials are typical pen-work 2-line initials, poss. blue, with poss. red or brown flourishes and infilling. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers (roman) poss. red and/or blue, with the title and chapter number usually separated by