Layout: 2 columns, 50 lines Decoration: 1 17-line puzzle initial “P” in red and blue on Frag. 11.2 with trailing red and blue penwork extending above and below the initial and blue penwork infilling Decoration: numerous 2-4 line initials in alternating red and blue with fine penwork flourishing in the contrasting color extending above and below the initials Decoration: running titles and marginal chapter numbers in alternating red and blue characters Decoration: capitals stroked in red Decoration: and rubricated text in red Small marginal guide letters for marginal chapter numbers at extreme edges of pages Some erasures with overwritten text added in a darker ink Marginal corrections framed in brown/black and red, and often signaled with tie-marks 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 11 (Fol. 11.2 is the folio originally included as part of Ege’s FOL) Provenance: Fol. 11.1: Gift of Dr. David Bee (donated in 1982) Fol. 11.1: III Kings 7:48-8:59 Fol. 11.2: Job 42:8-16 Prologue to Proverbs (Stegmüller 457, beginning w/ the Jerome variant “Chromatio et Helyodoro…” Proverbs 1:1-3:14 Fol. 11.3: Jeremiah 51:58-52:34 short “argumentum” to Lamentations Lamentations 1:1-12 Incipit: Fol. 11.1: Panes propositiones aureum et candele Fol. 11.2: Neque enim locut estis ad me recta Fol. 11.3: …celse igni conburentur et labores Explicit: Fol. 11.1: adpropinquantes domino nostro die et nocte ut faciat Fol. 11.2: …sitio illius negotiation argenti et ani… Fol. 11.3: conisdera quoniam facta sum vilis . Lamed O vos
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