M. 2.1 Med., pastedowns

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in Summary Catalogue

Language(s): Latin with one gloss in (Anglo-Norman?) French

Evrard, de Béthune, Graecismus

Commentary on Graecismus

Parts of chapters 13-15, with commentary.

'Calumpnior' is glossed 'chalingir' in an anglicana script (s. xiv).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: Fragments (large parts of two bifolia). Orientation: head to gutter.

Dimensions (fragment): 312 × 206 mm.

Layout

1 column with commentary either side. More than 29 lines of text. Line height: 5mm main text, 3mm commentary. Minim height: 1mm in main text and commentary. Pricking in inner margins.

Hand(s)

Informal Gothic textualis

Decoration

Red paraphs at the start of every 2-3 lines, red highlighting on first letter of each line, some words in commentary underlined in red. One line in main text underlined on back pastedown. Back pastedown also has one red initial, two lines high

Additions:

Interlinear additions in main text, similar hand to that of commentary. Additions to commentary made in 2-3 hands, roughly contemporary.

History

Origin: England (?); s.xiii

Record Sources

Description by Jemima Bennett, April 2024.

Availability

Orderable through SOLO

Bibliography

N. R. Ker, Fragments of medieval manuscripts used as pastedowns in Oxford bindings, ed. David Rundle and Scott Mandelbrote (2004 for 2000), no. 40

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03: Created record.

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