Layout: 1 column, 14 lines Decoration: 1 4-line initial “K” in blue with white highlights infilled with pink vines sprouting into a trio of ivy leaves in blue, orange, and white, all on a field of burnished gold, with a long shaft in burnished gold with pink and white accompanying bar extending the length of the left margin into the lower margin where the shaft terminates in sprays of red and gold ivy leaves Decoration: and with black vine work sprouting from the shaft and terminating in gold ivy leaves flanked by a small white gold ball with a black ink flourish Decoration: 12 1-line initials in burnished gold, 8 of them on red grounds with blue accents, the remaining 4 on blue grounds with red accents, all highlighted with delicate white penwork Decoration: delicate vines terminating in small red and blue leaves with white penwork extending from initials in the left, upper, and lower margins Decoration: 8 horizontal line fillers in blue and pink with white penwork accents and gold bezants Ruled in brown ink 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 25 Conclusion of the Seven Penitential Psalms and the opening of the Litany Incipit: disperdes inimicos meos . Et perdes omnes qui tribulant animam meam Explicit: Sancte Paule or.
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