![]() ![]() i-v + 124 + vi-vii ( + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning) f. Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm (text space: 140-150 x 85 mm single columns of 32-35 lines page page).xxxix, xliv-xlv, 351-352) and parchment (ff. Materials: Paper, featuring watermarks that suggest that an origin in Holland, about 1440-1450 (see Meech and Allen, The Book of Margery Kempe (1940), pp.Rubrics in the text and margins in red (e.g. 100v), three hosts with the Holy Blood of Wilsnack (f. ![]() 15r), a flame representing ‘ignis divini amoris’ (f. 2r), a pillar representing the Church (f. Marginal drawings in red ink: a heart with an IHS monogram (f. Large (3-line) initials in red throughout, some with decoration in red ink inside their letters: an IHS monogram (ff. Decoration:1 large (4-line) initial in red (f. 1442) of Soham, Cambridgeshire, dated 1440. 1457), papal diplomat and apostolic notary, to William Buggy (d. viii recto: Letter in Latin from Peter de Monte (b. ![]() 124v: A faded recipe for confection ('dragges') in English written in the late 15th or early 16th century. The manuscript contains a few additions:f. 1450, and contains notes by a select number of later annotators in its margins. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe (b. ![]()
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