Occasional holes, damage from spills and damp, but no loss of text. The parchment has been repaired in places, e.g. f. 1.
Layout
1
30
210 ×
125 mm
Guidelines and ruling in ink and lead.
Script
Textblock
Hand 1
Pregothic minuscule.
Additions
Binding/Endleaves
(f. SL1r)
Centre page, in brown ink by a 19th century hand: ‘Eusebios Pamphilii Ecclesiasticarum Historiarum Libri IX ad quas accedunt Libri X et XI, ex redactione Hieronymi.’.
(f. SL1v)
Top of page, in brown ink by a modern hand: ‘Eusebii Historia lib. 11’.
Textblock
(f. 1r)
Top of page, in brown ink by a contemporary hand: ‘Euxebii eclesiastice historie liber primus’.
(ff. 1r–187r)
At least two layers of marginal and interlinear additions by medieval hands throughout. The first layer consist of corrections and additions by the scribe or a contemporary hand. The second layer stems from another medieval hand that comments on the content in the margins.
There are also modern annotations in pencil noting references to literature.
(f. 187v)
Centre page, in brown ink by a medieval hand: ‘historiarum liber undecimus explicit’.
Decorations
Textblock
Main text in brown and black ink, rubrics in red.
(f. 1r): opening puzzle initial S over 7 lines in blue and red with flourishing in the same colours. The same type of initial introduces Books 4, 6, 8, and 10, while the other books are introduced by plain initials.
(ff. 7r–187r): plain initials for paragraphs and chapters over 3-4 lines alternating in red and blue, occasionally with some penwork decoration.
Binding
Binding of uncertain date. Brown leather over wooden boards. 5 double raised bands and endbands. Spine, stamped in gold: ‘A 152’.
290 ×
210 ×
55 mm
Blind tooled panels with an unidentified coat-of-arms in a medalion in the centre.
Leather worn and repaired with light brown leather on spine and corners. Two small holes on RCO, perhaps remnants of clasps.
Origin and early provenance unknown. The manuscript has been at the National Library since at least the 18th century. According to a note by a previous librarian the spine used to carry the singum ‘No 5 in 4o
’, which refers to the catalogue of 1734 (U 125e).
