One bizarre MS jumped out at me tonight: an image from Sloane 121 (a MS devoted to medicine and including a recipe for gingerbread), found on the British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts website.
What do you make of this? It is a flyleaf, as the description supports, but I think it is worthy of comments and suggestions as to its history and what it reveals about MS production and usage. I invite you, my readers, to post any observations in response to this entry.
For a better image, refer to: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=6483
For the description, see:
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=995&CollID=9&NStart=121
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