Geoffrey of Monmouth — 13th century; England

Title

Geoffrey of Monmouth — 13th century; England

Shelfmark

MS. Add. A. 61

Place of origin

England

Date

13th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 55leaves

Hands

Written with varying degrees of informality and irregularity by several small and often cursive hands of the glossing type. The least formal hand has deeply-split ascenders and uses simple, crude letter-forms; the tall decorated ascenders on the first line of a page reflect documentary practice. The shaft of the Tironian nota is crossed in places; ahas both the Caroline minuscule and two-compartment forms; the only ligature in use is de; round-backed d is standard; tall sis used in final position; g is crank-tailed. The Insular enim-compendium occurs. The ink is dark brown

Decoration

Small plain red capitals withut filigree except (in ink) at §1 and §5

Shield drawn on 53v with a different shield on the facing recto

Acquisition

Bought from the rev. W. D. Macray on March 17, 1863, for £1 10s

Provenance

On fol. 54v, now barely visible, is 'Iste liber est fratris Guillelmi de Buria de [...] Roberti ordinis fratrum Predicatorum' (15th century)

'hanauilla' is written at the foot of the page (15th century)