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letters. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings with numbers (roman numerals) and occasional rope twist line markers, poss. in red or blue; a number of the headings are uncompleted and have been added in the margin by small C15 hand; spaces

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an unusual sickle shaped paraph with the upper and lower arms extending along the adjacent word, poss. in red and blue (design consistent throughout scribal stints). Annotation and Marginalia MS. is generally very clean of annotation, however, there are some

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MS: Generally 3-line initials, alternately in gilt and red and/or blue (cf. Harvard MS. Eng 587), pen-work framing and flourishes in common style; chapter headings with 1-line initials, prob. blue. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings in red, chapter numbers are

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2-line initials, poss. blue with red pen-work infilling decoration and flourishing into margins. Fols 3ff: 3-line initials, 'gilt and painted' (Voigts, 22), with pen-work flourishing into margins. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings, prob. in red, with a blue initial, and

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many historiated initials, which are discussed as Miniatures . Scribe A, fols 1-142r: Chapter headings utilise 1-line initials, gold or blue with red or brown penwork flourishing; chapters (without historiated initials) begin with generally 3-line gold initials, with sprays of

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) and occasional one-line solid caps, prob. in colours. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers, prob. in red or blue, with line fillers in a variety of intricate styles including a highly unusual rectangular design containing squares in alternate

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250mm x 170mm approx. Materials and writing support Parchment Writing Space 170-180mm x 110-120mm approx. Border Initials? 2-line initials, prob. blue with red flourishing; sinuous 7-line 'I' form, executed in margin. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter headings and numbers in red,

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untinctured zig-zag design in the character's stem (c.f. Sydney MS. Nicholson, 13, BL Addit. 33242 etc.) These capitals are poss. blue with red sprays. The quality of the sprays wanes after fol. 87v; at this point the sprays become more

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prob. in red, boxes or trays frequently used to mark scribal notae, poss. red; boxy 'L' or '' paraphs, poss. blue or red provide textual subdivisions. Nota symbols, poss. red appear sporadically throughout the manuscript, usually marking proper nouns; a

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Rubrication Manuscript is much darkened and rubrication is difficult to discern; chapter headings and numbers (roman) poss. in red or blue ink, no paraphs, other than with side notes at beginning of the transcription. Annotation and Marginalia Comparison with annotation

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sinuous 8-line 'I' form penned in margin, and a 3-line initial 'A' on fol. 3r, capitals are generally 2-line, poss. blue, with poss. red penwork sprays and infilling. Miniatures Miniatures Rubrication Chapter titles and numbers prob. in red; some marginal