Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

Binding

Description:  

Bound, s. XV, in whittawed leather over bevelled wooden boards; on the back cover, a label under horn, including authors, titles, and 2o folio, under protective horn (characteristic of books from Syon Abbey).

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

f. i verso

Description:  

Biographical note about Bede in the hand of Robert Elyot; gift note from Robert Elyot to Sion Abbey; ownership note of Augustine Styward.

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

f. 1

Description:  

Beginning of text, Part 1, scribe 1.

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

ff. 16v-17

Description:  

Part 1, scribe 2; catchword; quire and leaf signature; all blue initials with red flourishing.

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

f. 111

Description:  

Opening of Part II, copied at the end of the 13th century.

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

ff. 124v-125

Description:  

Characteristic manicules (or pointing hands) of Robert Elyot.

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

f. 155v

Description:  

Characteristic profile face drawn by Robert Elyot.

Call Number:  

HM 35300

Folio:  

f. 170

Description:  

Explicit of main text; quaestio added in the otherwise blank space, and attributed to Hugh of St. Victor.