Watermarks in gutter similar to Briquet Main 11417 and Lettre P 8636.

Script: Written in a running script with some looped ascenders, by one scribe.

Crude 2-line initials, in orange. Paragraph marks and slashes between sentences, also in orange.

Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Rebinding? Sewn on three vegetable fiber, double cords, the previous sewing caught up. No endbands. The cords are laced and pegged into oak boards. Between the cords the spine is lined with vellum strips which extend into the inside of the boards. Covered in reddish-brown calf, blind-tooled with a vine scroll St. Andrew's cross set in a panel border of the same on the lower board, concentric panels, two with vine scrolls on the upper. There is a brass catch on the upper board, the stub of a vellum strap attached to the lower one. The leather is wanting in the spine area.

In Danish.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

De Ricci, v. 1, p. 170, no. 39.

Waterstains and signs of wear on most folios, some affecting the legibility of the text.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 39.

Sjaelland, Denmark: Logbok. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Law > Denmark.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.