Part 1: ff. ii + 69 + ii

Description: - Paper - Two distinct watermarks, unidentifiable due to binding - 139 x 104 mm - 24-28 long lines; some ruling in lead visible

Country: Spain

Cardinal point: northern

Region: Navarre?

Assigned Date: 1475-1500

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: At least 7 different hands, some appearing in marginalia and fragmentary texts

Script: Primary text written in two distinct scripts: hymn stanzas in gothic script in dark brown ink with use of uncial letters, glosses in a smaller gothic batarde script in lighter brown ink

Figurative Decoration: Four 3-line figural capitals with human faces in the center of the letter on f. 4r-v; 3 pen illustrations ff. 1r, 2r, 4v

Other Decoration: 12-line decorated initial on f. 5r; marginalia to primary text in Castilian and Latin in at least 2 contemporary early 16th cent. gothic cursive scripts with humanist tendencies; modern notations in pencil on fol. 39r

Notes: Latin

Acknowledgments: - Description by Jennifer K. Nelson and Randal Brandt




Text 1: f. 1r

Author: Catholic Church

Title: Grammar fragment in Latin (unidentified)

Language(s): Latin

Image 1: f. 1r Pen illustration of unicorn ("alicornio") (?)




Text 2: ff. 1v-2r

Author: Catholic Church

Title: Indulgence

Language(s): Spanish

Incipit: Esta es la ... mesura de nuestro señor ihesu xristo cual quier quela adorare Et la besare...

Explicit: ...altar de santa maria fue sacada esta medida dela longura del cuerpo de dios nuestro señ[or] ihesu xristo stavan presentes buenas personas...canonjgos dela yglesia de san martin año de mil et cuatrocientos et cincuent[a] et nueve

Notes: Local indulgences granted to those who worship or kiss the measure of Christ's body, dated 1459 

Image 2: ff. 1v-2r Spanish cursive gothic script




Text 3: ff. 2r-4v, 68r-69v

Author: Catholic Church

Title: Latin Catechism with pericopic Latin and Castilian glosses

Language(s): Latin; Spanish.

Incipit: Metra parrentanymus ... [?]

Notes: 4v: Anonymous Latin catechism with pericopic Latin and Castilian glosses (incomplete); 5r: [text] Primo dierum omnium quo mundus extat...; 

Image 3: ff. 68v-69r Probationes pennae




Text 4: ff. 5r-68v

Author: Catholic Church

Title: Devotional hymnal with glosses

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: Primo dierum omnium quo mundus extat conditus uel quo resurgens conditor nos morte uita liber

Explicit: ... Pater meus es et mater mea et soror mea uermjbus vbi est ergo nunc presolatio mea et pacientia mea tu es domine deuss meus

Image 4: ff. 4v-5r Pen illustration of warrior with lance (?) and shield


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Part 2: Binding

Description: - Paper - 145 x 110 mm

Country: Spain

Region: Navarre?

Assigned Date: 1800-1900?

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Figurative Decoration: 2 14th cent. vellum cuttings in gothic textualis script pasted to the spine and front board serving as title pieces.

Other Decoration: Pasted cutting on front board reads "Ecce uideo celos ap|ertos. et Ihesum stan[tem]," with 2-line initial "E" in blue, a blue decorative Chi Rho monogram, and a blue border. Cutting on spine reads "vnda | deum |.celum | uidit | Ecce | et fili[um]."

Notes: Latin




Text 1: Binding. Front cover.

Author: Catholic Church

Title: Devotional hymnal with glosses

Language(s): Latin

Image 5: Binding. Front cover. Binding. Front cover.