Okay--this should be a good one. Last quarter of the 15th-century. This is a 10-for-10 ms--gorgeous hand, extreme clarity.
Try to describe how the letter forms touch each other. This will be easier if you study the ductus--the pen-draw--as you work. Of course, you'll note that there are two different hands...
To the end of understanding both hands: our forgery will be 1) the last two lines of the first rubric ("Et sont divisees...") and 2) the entirety of the right-column rubric on the second scanned leaf ("Comment le duc de Bretaigne...")
Our reading should go very smoothly. By next class period, please transcribe each rubric, and the column that follows it.
Austin, University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, HRC 048
Description: ff. i + 160 + i; i + 224 + i - Previous binding (retained, housed separately) was one volume with oak boards covered in (now threadbare) brown velvet, sheepskin back, 5 large brass bosses on each board. Rebound in 1988 in two volumes, in full vellum over boards with clasps. - St. Martin of Tournai monastery; Augustins Déchaussées de la Croix-Rousse; Thomas Hobart (d.1728); Sir Roger Mostyn (1675-1739); John Barrymore; Elliot Nugent; Edward A. Parsons (1878-1962) (see Regine Reynolds Cornell, UT Library Chronicle n.s. no. 22)Notes: - Foliated at the bottom of the page in the inside margin of the recto. Foliated from 1 - 384, as if it were still one volume.





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