| Physical Description | Binding: Standard Lincoln 17th-cent., repaired. Three paper leaves at each end. Lincoln Cathedral bookplate inside the front cover. Paper labels on the spine: M.S. EVANGELIUM S. IOHANNIS GLOSATUM [mutil.] / 97. A 4. 5.
Construction: 86 parchment leaves, the upper and outer edges trimmed. Some outer and lower margins mutil. 290 x 200 (185 x 120) mm., plummet-ruled in 46 gloss-lines; the text, in larger script, on every second line. Pricked in both margins. Collation: 1-8⁸, 9⁶, 10-11⁸. The quires numbered with pencil in roman numerals at the foot of the last verso.
Hands: Written throughout in one expert, large English hand, varying a little in the gloss. To f.47 the wide outer and lower margins were used for further glosses, on specially ruled lines, in neat early 13th-cent. book- hands.
Decoration: (1) F.1 large H in colours and gold, with St. John seated and writing, the Holy Spirit as dove dictating to him. F.2v I of In principio in colours and gold, with John's eagle in a medallion at the middle of the shaft. (2) In the text red or blue initials, flourished in the other colour. (3) In the gloss plain red or blue initials with paraphs of the other colour. |