Ff. 1-14 (2 quires) are a model-book consisting of 75 illustrations for copying into the 2 treatises later in the volume. In these treatises the spaces intended for the illustrations are blank. Probable date and origin in France from evidence of style (Clark & McNunn, 26). The text is written in a gothic book-hand mostly in 1 column, initial letters with pen-work decoration in red and blue. Bound in original blind-tooled calf. In a tray case,19 cm. Signatures of Johannes Spergaz (15th. cent; f. 15r) William Cheslyn (18th cent.; front flyleaf) and John Fossum (18th cent.; back flyleaf). Gift of Philip Hofer in honor of Roger S. Wieck, 1983.
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