Quote:ReneZ: For what it's worth (and marginally OT) :
it strikes me that the handwriting of BNF Lat 10272 is rather similar to the reconstructed handwriting in a recent blog post by JKP:...
Yes, except for the g and the extra-long curve on the VMS column-text ascenders, it's quite similar.
I'm going to stick my neck out and make a guess (before looking at the manuscript) that it was written sometime between 1498 and 1508.
This style of text was used into the late 1500s but... it looks to me like the folio that's posted in this thread might be parchment (based on the wrinkles near the inner margin), and the use of parchment was just about obsolete by the early 1500s. So... that's why I'm thinking very early 1500s (or very late 1400s, turn of the century).
This weekend, when I have time, I'll sample this one.