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Satirical poems on simony – Fragment

Parchment · 1 partial leaf · 1201 – 1250 CE · Western Europe · 138 x 102 mm

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Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686, Box 2, Ms 55
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Unidentified satirical poems on simony in rhymed couplets. 1 partial parchment leaf (top margin visible, no bottom margin). Western Europe, first half of 13th century. Latin, praegothica, 102 mm x 138 mm. Red marginal headers, red markings on couplets in some poems, decorative darker black initials in margin begin individual poems. Ruled and lined in brown ink, text written above line. Writing area 53 mm in width. Marginal notations in non-scribal hand contemporary to or not much later than rest of the manuscript.

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Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago
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