General Layout

  • 1 roll (2 membranes/pieces of parchment)
  • Single column on both sides
  • Dorse
    • Minimum width of text: 29mm
    • Maximum width of text: 111mm
    • Margins primarily on left side with minimal variation (approx. 18mm throughout)
    • Variation in width primarily at the end of the first membrane/piece and the first verse of the second membrane/piece
    • Decoration width (margin through initial frame): 35mm (with variation among initials)
    • Number of large decorated initials: 5
    • Text layout
      • Primarily black text with two separate and significantly long sections of red text
      • Several lines of red text and both blue and red color initials
  • Recto
    • Minimum width of text: 16mm
    • Maximum width of text: 115mm
    • Margins primarily at on left side with some variation
      • Maximum margin: 26mm
      • Minimum margin: 20mm
    • Variation in width primarily at the end of the first membrane/piece and the first verse of the second membrane/piece
    • Decoration width (margin through initial frame):
      • Maximum width: 48mm
      • Minimum width: 31mm
    • Number of large decorated initials: 7
    • Text layout
      • Primarily black text with five interspersed lines of red text two separate and significantly long sections of red text
      • Large number of red letter decoration passim

Bibliography

Bledsoe, Jenny C. “A Late Medieval Macaronic Prayer Roll: UPenn MS Roll 1563.” Notes and Queries 63:2 (June 2016): 196–199.