Language
Origin
Germany?, 13th century, early
Physical description
Format: Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
- Script: Gothic book hand in three sizes for text, marginal gloss and interlinear gloss. The manuscript is unfinished; marginal gloss ends at f. 16r and interlinerar gloss ends at f. 17v.
- Collation: 3 quires: I: 8 (ff. 1-8), II: 4 (ff. 9-12), III: 8 (ff. 13-20). Quire signatures at f. 8v (vii), f. 12v (viii) and f. 20v (ix).
- Foliation: The manuscript is foliated by modern cataloguer in pencil in upper right corner of recto side of the leaves.
- Columns: 3
- Lines: 32
Notes
Book binding
Binding: Whittawed and reversed leather binding, Romanesque boards contemporary the with manuscript, covering of reversed leather possibly later (cfr. Szirmai 1999 pp. 140 sqq, p. 225). Restored back, 20th century. Size: 262 x 192 x 28 mm.
Whittawed and reversed leather binding over thick rounded Romanesque oak boards. Leather covering of the back restored. Two long-strap fastenings at fore-edge, former hasp missing, straps new. Holes from chain attachment at the top of the lower cover. Tight back with three raised bands. Remnants of title labels at the top part of the upper cover. Endbands missing. Trimmed edges. No squares. Pastedowns of parchment. Front pastedown with restorations. Back pastedown partly defect from tearing showing pieces of manuscript waste of the lower board. All along sewing on three double thongs laced through the boards. Thongs later cut flush with the spine and restored at the joint of the upper board.
Decoration
Alternating red and blue intials with pen flourishes in the opposite colour. Two larger initials with extensive pen flourishes, two lines in height, on f. 3r , 19v ; the others, one line in height, are divided in two groups, the first of which show extended pen flourishes (f. 1v , 2v , 5v , 6v , 9r , 10v , 11v , 12r , 13v , 14v , 15r , 15v , 16r , 18r , 18v ) the decoration of the remaining being more restricted.
Detailed description:
f. 3r : Initial Q in blue with filling consisting of S curling spirals in red with blue details, bordure decoration and pen flourishes in red with minute flower ornaments on the tail;
f. 19v : Initial S in blue with decorative filling somewhere between bordure and filigranated decoration in red with blue circular details, and pen flourishes in blue and red extended into the lower margin.
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Location
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221 00 Lund
St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark: Medeltidshandskrift 60
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-13282 (nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:13282 (alvin)
Licensing of the work
Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright)