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Scribal sample sheet
Title
Scribal sample sheet.
Created
[Germany], [ca. 1475-1500]
Physical Description
1 l. : parchment ; 206 x 284 mm.
Language
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
Notes
Script: each line in a different gothic display script.
Decoration: in red and black ink.
In Latin.
Provenance
Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, probably in a single hand, containing seven discontinuous lines of text in different gothic display scripts in black and red inks, probably produced as a sample sheet of a scribe's work.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 03, 2014
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Scribal Sample Sheet (Takamiya MS 107). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Scribal Sample Sheet (Takamiya MS 107). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
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