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The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II
Ist Teil von
Notes and queries, 2023-03, Vol.70 (1), p.7-11
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Colquitt examines the British Library's Royal Manuscript 18 B II which is the earliest and most complete surviving witness to the Middle English prose Melusine. It is a single-text codex about which very little is known prior to the 17th century. The text is presented in single columns with wide margins and written in an elegant secretary hand on chancery paper folded in folio. The main text and the capitula seem to be the work of a single scribe, likely professional. There are spaces left for initials two or three lines in height and half-page miniatures, though these were never filled.