Manuscript Laboratory, Part 1a: Determining Provenance and Descriptive Bibliography (Before starting, click here for tips to help you fill out this worksheet for Early Modern "indentures".)
Description of Content / Author or Scribe [if known] / Text Function (in this case, what an "indenture" does legally and why it looks like it does) / Persons, Places, Things, and Actions Mentioned / Relation to Other Similar MSS):
Physical Description--Paper size (h/w in cm.); Text block size (h/w in cm); Paper composition (chainlines? watermarks?) or animal hide used in parchment, if known (with grain, texture, color, and other evidence to support the identification):
Number of leaves/folia/pages:
Lines per page (most/least, average):
Words per line (most/least, average):
Characteristics of the script (era, formality, abbreviations, distinctive letter forms):
Further issues including other document evidence not visible in digital surrogate: Conversion of currency values into modern equivalents.