Decorated initial 'R'(emedium), in the Liber de venenis. 1 large initial in red with pen-flourishing in red and brown (f. 1). Large initials in plain red or blue some with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in blue or red, some decorated
and Lumley ownership signatures. Includes the books from Job to Revelation. The first volume is Royal 1 E VII. The text corrected or emended by a Christ Church scribe; other manuscripts attributed to him are: Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 1.17
of Psalm 1, and two initials 'P'(rimus) and 'A'(biit) with penwork extensions, at the beginning of gloss divisions, and a drawing of a hand in the margin. Includes 5 Canticles: 'Canticum Ysaie prophete' (Isaiah 12, 37:10-20), 'Canticum Anne' (1 Samuel,
Illuminated initial 'H'(umanum genus) at the beginning of part 1. Part 1 is written by two hands: Hand 1 (ff. 1-168v), and Hand 2 (ff. 169-286). Illuminated initials (ff. 1, 79) and diagrams of the Trees of Consanguinity and Affinity
II: ff. 223-149).Part 3 contains the Miracle of Sardenai in French verse (ff. 270-279v). Quire signatures (ff. 1 - 122); catchwords (ff. 249-279v). 1 large inhabited initial in outline drawing, at the beginning of the text (f. 249). Initials in
1884. c. 130 c. 90 mm Unascertainable Double and single columns with c. 40 lines. Margins marked and ruled. Scribe 1 - ff. 1-5, small/tiny book-hand, possibly French. Body height: 1mm. Scribe 2 - ff. 6-8, early type of Anglicana,
pricking visible. Writing space: Item 1 - 145 x 90 mm. Item 2 - 155 x 90 mm. Item 3 - double columns 150 x 45 mm each. Columns are single and double. Lines: Item 1 - 27; Item 2
partibus orationis 'Evangelica clamat hystoria sine intermissione orate'. 'cum descendit in nos spiritus adop...'. Latin Codex Parchment 285 195 mm 1 8 (wants 1-5); 2-3 8 ; 4 4 ; 5 8 ; 6 8 ; 7 4 (wants 4);
Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribal Dialect of ff. 119r-164v: Northamptonshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 147). A composite manuscript made up of five manuscripts of mainly Latin texts but including a short English
cvi and cxxvi. ff. 134r (IMEV 2742 ) 'Pees makeþ plente'. 'Grace groweth after gouernaunce'. Codex Parchment 390 280 mm 1 (8) (wants 2); 2-16 (8) ; 17 (8) (wants 8). Catchwords regular at the end of each quire: ff.7v;