I6 <\/sup>(fols 1r-6v); II8<\/sup> (fols 7r-14v); III8?<\/sup> wants 2 and 3 (?), 8 cancelled (fols 15r-19v); IV-XV8<\/sup> (fols 20r-115v); XVI4<\/sup> (fols 116r-119v); XVII8<\/sup> wants 1, a second leaf cancelled (?) (fols 120r-125v); XVII-XIX8<\/sup> (fols 126r-141v); XX8+2<\/sup>, a quire of eight + a bifolium, wants 2 (fols 142r-149v, fols 150r-150v); XXI-XXV8<\/sup> (fols 151r-190v); XXVI?<\/sup> (five left, collation uncertain) (fols 191r-195v).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This describes 26 quires, each with eight leaves, though some with fewer or more than eight.<\/p>\n There are rulings visible on most every page, providing a guideline for the borders and the text. \u00a0The manuscript follows a strict 14-line per page layout for the devotional texts.<\/p>\n An example of the rulings and 14-line layout with a bas-de-page; f. 8v<\/p><\/div>\n While I could not find any specifics related to the Taymouth Hours and the ink used to create it, the red used for the incipts\/explicits and rubrications could have been thinned red paint. \u00a0Richard of Oxford was known for his black outlines, and black ink was produced by either burning oils, pitch, candles, or resin and mixing it with gum, or else a charcoal made from grapevine twigs (Baker, 2004).<\/p>\n Rubrication – f. 8v: French Prayers<\/p><\/div>\n Red rubrication is used in this manuscript both to identify prayers, offices, and other texts, as well as to identify the characters in the\u00a0bas-de-page\u00a0<\/em>illustrations, such as those for the two English heroes that accompany the French prayers following the calendar.<\/p>\n Rubrication – f. 15v: Guy of Warwick<\/p><\/div>\n Rubrication – f. 10r: Bevis of Hampton<\/p><\/div>\n There is one historiated initial in the Taymouth Hours – on f. 89r. \u00a0This same page (as seen in the image below) also bears notes from a 16th century Scottish owner. \u00a0It \u00a0is part of the Hours of the Virgin and depicts the Nativity.<\/p>\n The initial features gold leaf, diapering, and\u00a0architectural\u00a0in addition to the bordering scroll and ivy elements common in Gothic manuscripts (Wood, 2013). \u00a0The ends of the initial ‘D’ flow into the ivy border, as was common (Delorez, 2003). \u00a0 The fact that the nearly 200 folios of the Taymouth Hours only contain one historiated initial is another element of the Gothic period, when use of historiated initials was lessening (Delorez, 2003).<\/p>\n f. 2r<\/p><\/div>\n The Taymouth Hours features decorations on nearly every page, including 24\u00a0calendar\u00a0medallions, 24 miniatures of various sizes, numerous decorated initials, and foliate borders. \u00a0The decorated initials follow the Gothic tradition of being\u00a0hierarchical (Delorez, 2003), as can be seen on f. 12v below. \u00a0Gothic manuscripts are also marked by the preference for enclosed space (Delorez, 2003, p. 43), and the Taymouth Hours are an excellent example of this. \u00a0From the calendar pages \u00a0onward, nearly every page is bordered with the red and blue, leafy vines. \u00a0What few pages are not bordered this way consist of one main, bordered illustration and an un-bordered\u00a0bas-de-page,\u00a0<\/em>which is arguably marginalia as it is not contained within the border.<\/p>\n f. 12v<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/blogs\/280\/azurite\/files\/2013\/02\/rulings.jpg\")
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