Leeds, Leeds University Library, Ripon Cathedral xiii. A. 35
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:Leeds
Repository: Leeds University Library
Idno:Ripon Cathedral xiii. A. 35
AltName:
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Date and Language
Date:s. xv1
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin state 'language of N Staffs' (1986, p. 239).
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Contents
All that remains of this manuscript is a double leaf containing Mandeville's Travels. There are two fragments, one from Chapter 6, the other from Chapter 10. The fragment dates from the first half of the fifteenth century (Cawley 1957, p. 263).

Item: 1
Locus:
Title:Mandeville's Travels (IPMEP 233)
Incipit:'Oon and hym toke Abraham in his hous'.
Explicit:'flood in tokenyng žat že synne of Adam shuld'.
Note:Only a fragment of the text remains; a double leaf used as binding around a printed book.
Bibliography:Printed in Cawley 1957.
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Physical Description
Form:Fragment
Support: Parchment
Extent:185 x 125 mm
Collation: Unascertainable
Layout:Pricking not visible. Writing space of 130 x 90 mm with single columns and 24 lines. No ruling is visible.
Writing: Ink: black/brown. One scribe writing in an Anglicana script. Characteristics: long s in initial position; 8-shaped s in final position; double compartment a; ž; 8-shaped g in initial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; Body height: 3mm.
Decoration: Red, and blue paraphs with underlining in red. Latin in red.
Binding:
Foliation:
Additions:
Condition:Only a fragment remains.
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:Unknown
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, June 2004.
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Bibliography
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