Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc
Description
Vertical catch words. Decoration: 3-line initial in gold on a blue and green ground and a penwork border in purple with flowers and a bird (f. 1r). 2-line initials in blue and red throughout for beginnings of texts. The first part of the text (ff. 1r-23v) in red and brown ink for alternate paragraphs, and with extensive marginal annotation in Latin and Spanish. An elaborate marginal drawing of a pointy hand on f. 18v to highlight a section. Written in humanistic book script. Principal contents: various ordinances and other texts relating to the Carthusian Order, including a part of the Statuta Antiqua, and (the main text of the manuscript, ff. 40r-103r) De forma prima electionis by Guido de Pisis. From the library of Lord Brotherton. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 49-50.
Metadata
| Identifier | hhg877rn |
| IRN | 372695 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 13 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hhg877rn |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Print |
| Parent Record | Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection) |
| Creator(s) | Guido de Pisis |
| Date | [ca. 1480-1500] |
| Size and Medium | 1 v. (ii, 103, iii leaves) (1 column, 20 lines; ruled in ink) |