Manuscript Laboratory, Part 1: Determining Provenance and Descriptive Bibliography  (Click here for tips to help you fill out this worksheet.)

Provenance:  

 

 

Description of Content (Author / Text / Relation to Other Versions in MS or Print):

 

 

Physical Description--Paper size (h/w in cm.); Text block size (h/w in cm); Paper composition (chainlines?  watermarks?):

 

 

Number of leaves/folia/pages:

Imposition of text on leaves/folia/pages:

Further issues:

Lines per page (most/least, average):

Words per line (most/least, average):

Characteristics of the script (era, formality, abbreviations, distinctive letter forms):

 

 

Other document evidence not visible in digital surrogate

 

 

 

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