Those images also show the clear differences in colour between the hair and flesh sides of the (sheepskin) parchment.
The nature of the parchment was the reason I was looking at the MS in the first place: Malcolm Parkes had described it as characteristic of Oxford.
The nature of the parchment was the reason I was looking at the MS in the first place: Malcolm Parkes had described it as characteristic of Oxford.
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It was, nonetheless, an opportunity to look at some precisely dated and localised script and decoration:
To give a sense of scale, here's an image with a hand in it: