Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Elaine E. Whitaker
• Robert R. Raymo

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• The Mirroure of the Worlde, 2015, p.3

Ort / Verlag

University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Mirroure of the Worldesurvives uniquely in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 283 (S. C. 2338), a large, well-preserved volume of 186 leaves, collating i + A-I²⁰ K⁴ + i.¹ The leaves are mainly royal folio paper measuring 406 by 284 millimeters and bearing a watermark nearly identical to Piccard 163, a winged griffin rampant localized in Friuli in 1463.² The outer and middle leaves of each quire are parchment. Parchment bifolia also precede and follow the text, with one leaf attached to the binding and the other serving as an endleaf. The late seventeenth-century foliation runs faultily