The Glossed Text


Gloss007

London, British Library, Royal MS 3 E.V., fols. 90v-91r. Pages from the fifth and last volume in a set of glossed biblical manuscripts written and decorated in Oxford in the mid-thirteenth century, partly by the illuminator Reginald.
Colored initials and rubrication continue as far as the left-hand page here, after which they were left unfinished. On the lower left is a note recording for payment purposes that the total number of large initials supplied so far in this volume is 229 and of small letters and paragraph marks 1,782.