USC Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Script- De Officiis

The script of the main body of this manuscript is an example of the littera bastarda (or lettre bâtarde, or simply bâtarde) a mixed cursive and book hand of the later fourteenth and the fifteenth century, used particularly in northern France and Western Germany. The word bastarda indicates its mixed parentage of formal black letter and casual cursive script. 
“There are at least two hands, much alike, used in the text itself, the first from f. 1 to f. xliv, with the second, a hand which seems bolder and less precise, beginning with on f. xlv.  In addition, the marginal notes and some of the corrections have been done by at least one other scribe, in a more angular and less easily read “humanistic script.” (Merrithew, 44).

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