ff. i + 207 - Modern binding in imitation of a medieval binding done by Phillip Durel in August 1986: dark stamped leather bearing fillets and stamps of fleurs de lys, fleurons; 2 clasps of a different suede-like leather.
Details
Title
Robbins MS 172
Published
France
Full Collection Name
Digital Scriptorium
Type
Image
Language
Latin
Archive
Robbins Collection, Berkeley Law
Note
Notes:-Ownership note, "Iste liber est Johannis (...) with name scratched out, f. 207r. Century: 15th
Contents
Part 1: ff. 1r-207v
Description: - Paper - Crossed keys, Briquet 3863, unicorn Briquet 9969, and two additional, unidentified. - 401 x 293 mm - 2 columns of 44, 50, and 45 lines (for scribes 1, 2, and 3 respectively); vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead and dry point; running book titles in red roman numerals.
Country: France
Assigned Date: s. XVin
Dated by scribe: No
Document: No
Number of Scribes: 3; scribe 1, ff. 1r-67v; scribe 2, ff. 68r-181v; scribe 3, ff. 182r-207r.
Script: Gothic and secretary.
Figurative Decoration: Portrait of King of France holding a fleur de lys; occasional faces in pen-flourishing of initials.
Other Decoration: Large initials in parti-red and blue with lavendar pen-flourishing; 2- to 3-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen flourishing in lavendar and red respectively; capital letters, paraph marks and line-fillers in alternating red and blue.
Text 1: ff. 1r-181v
Author: Baldus de Ubaldis
Title: Lectura super usibus feudorum
Language(s): Latin
Image 1: Front cover
Image 2: f. 1r Opening initial.
Image 3: ff. 67v-68r Change of hand; watermark visible between columns on f. 68r.
Image 4: ff. 85v-86r Guide for rubricator; Crossed Keys watermark visible between columns on f. 86r.
Image 7: f. 126v Calligraphic extensions to letters on lower line; face in pen flourishing on display script; Crossed Keys watermark visible between columns.
Image 8: f. 146v Marginal drawing of the king of France holding a fleur-de-lys.
Image 9: ff. 158v-159r Spaces left blank in text.
Image 10: f. 129r Face in pen flourishing on display script.
Text 2: ff. 182r-207r; f. 207 blank
Author: Jacobus Buttrigarius
Title: Liber Nonus
Image 11: f. 207r Ownership note.
Image 12: ff. 181v-182r Change of hand.
Image 13: f. 199v Hierarchy of initials; change in decorative style.
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