Ms. codex. Text includes all the Marcionite prologues for the Epistles of Paul, but is missing the Omnes prologue by Gilbert de la Poireé́ for the Apocalypse. Layout: Written in double columns of 42 lines; rulings for rubrics forms a triangular space, left blank at major divisions in the text. Script: Gothic textualis. Binding: Restored, dark brown leather, blind-tooled with classical portrait medallions; decorative metal cornerpieces and remnants of two metal clasps; collation in quires of 16. Note that manuscript has been badly rebound and contents are incomplete and out of order. Decoration: At chapter headings, large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and greenish-blue penwork; smaller initials in alternating red and blue; chapter numbers in red and blue in the outer margins; spaces for rubrics left blank. Origin: Written in England ca. 1225-50; attribution made in consultation with Laura Light. Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 056. Formerly owned by John A. Savage, Jr. (ca.1832-1864) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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