Layout: 1 column, 51 lines Decoration: Nine 2-5 line initials in alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color Foliated “39” in pencil at top right corner of recto Verso, , line 5: correction by subpunction and insertion in different colored ink, but in a contemporary hand Ruled in plummet Written in ledger book format Provenance: Formerly the property of Otto Ege, Cleveland, OH. Ege broke this manuscript and distributed 40 of its folios as part of his portfolio set, Fifty Original Leaves. See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, HL 7 Text from the second redaction of the Aurora, Petrus Riga’s metrical paraphrase of the Bible, featuring lines 259-343 retelling a portion of Numbers Incipit: Sic cristi corpus surgens de pulvere mortis Explicit: Post illam macheloth…secunda paratur
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