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ALT Leeds, University of Leeds Libraries, Brotherton Collection MS 1, folio 5r. First half of the calendar for May on the recto leaf surrounded by a three-quarter border and a double-compartment miniature.
ALT Photo by @manuscriptsetc of a roll manuscript on display at the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery at Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.
ALT An opening from KSRL MS C318 showing the end of the table of contents on folio 3r (left) and the beginning of Jacques Legrand's _Le livre de bonnes meurs_ starting with a 3-line initial T in red and blue on folio 4r (right).
ALT Detail from KSRL MS C318, recto of the final folio 139, with contemporary foliation vixxxvi.
ALT A parchment roll manuscript (Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Pryce MS J1) unrolled and laid flat on a long table.
ALT Initial opening of KSRL MS E282 showing the inside of the worn parchment cover (on the left) and the beginning of Guido delle Colonne's _Historia destructionis Troiae_ starting with a 5-line puzzle initial S and a three-quarter pen-flourished bar border extending from the initial on folio 1r (on the right).
ALT The description of the manuscript in Seymour de Ricci, with W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 3 vols. (New York: The American Council of Learned Societies, 1935-1940). II (1937): 2296, no. 1.
ALT Worn and somewhat shrunk front cover of the parchment case binding of KSRL MS E282, with its spine reinforced with a wide strip of checkered textile, perhaps in the eighteenth or nineteenth century.
ALT Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS E35. Pictured here is the inside of the front/left board of its fifteenth-century binding, with alum-tawed leather turn-ins with V-shaped notches and part of four transverse spine linings made of parchment adhered to the board exposed. The text from the repurposed parchment text guard which offset onto the inside of the board and over the turn-ins is also visible.
ALT Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS K4. Unfoliated opening of the manuscript showing the title page on the recto; verso blank.
ALT Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS K4. Diagrams 1-2, 4-10 for "First Book".
ALT Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS K4. Diagrams 11-19 for "First Book".
ALT Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS K4. Unfoliated gathering showing diagrams 9-12 for "Fourth Book" on the recto; verso blank.
