The illumination present in the manuscript is minimal, mostly green ink used to illuminate several letters and add several small embellishments (see Figure 24). While there seem to be large initials, decorations, and rubrication to signal the beginnings and endings of portions of the text, there seems to be a lack of incipits, "opening words" or explicit "closing" words throughout the manuscript (Brown, 1994, p.72 & 56).
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| Figure 24 |
Aside from colorful illumination, there were several ways in which scribes highlighted important text within a codex. A popular method was that of the manicule, or a small drawing of a hand, its index finger aimed directly at a portion of text a scribe wished to deem important. The word "manicule" comes from the Latin term maniculum meaning "little hand" (Rylands, 2013). Manicules varied in design, some "emerg[ing] from sleeves of varying sophistication" (Rylands, 2013) and they often revealed the fashions of the time. The earliest recorded instant of manicules dates back to 1086 in the Domesday Book but manicules then disappeared from manuscripts for some time until resurfacing in the twelfth century. Unfortunately, detailed information about the use of manicules at this point in history remains a mystery (Houston, 2013). In this manuscript, manicules are seen throughout, done mostly in black ink (see Figure 25) and occasionally in green or red ink.
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| Figure 25 |
