DistinctionesNicolas, de Byard[between 1300 and 1350].latManuscript on sheepskin of Nicolaus de Byard (ca. 1250), Distinctiones, with alphabetical indexIn Latin.Script: copied by several similar hands in small, highly abbreviated Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria (Semitextualis).Decoration: initials in red and blue, some with ornamentations and extensions in red and blue tracery. Guide letters in the margins.Binding: 19th century English blue leather with artificial cross grain over pasteboard. Gold-tooled inscriptions in the compartments of the spine. The damaged state of the final leaf of the manuscript shows that the original binding probably was chained at a staple fixed to the lower edge of the rear board.