Layout: 1 column, 12 lines Decoration: Elaborate full borders on fol. 284.1 consisting of blue, red, pink, grey, and green acanthus leaves, some with gold highlights. Large 5-line initial "I" in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds with white wash highlights Ruled in brown ink Bifolium Provenance: OSU Bifol sold by Leslie Hindman auctions (Chicago, IL) on 5/5/2016, lot 396 Provenance: Original codex sold by Sotheby's, 1 July 1938, lot 528 Provenance: Chichester Cathedral, England Provenance: Another bifolium sold at Skinner on 7/23/2019, part of lot 128; this bifolium includes the reference to the feast of the translation of St. Richard of Chichester Original manuscript apparently written for use at Chichester Cathedral as indicated by an inscrition on fol. 44: "In festo sactae translacionis patroni nostri sancti Richardi episcope et confessoris." This is St. Richard of Wych/Chichester (1197-1253), canonized in 1262 and buried in the cathedral Incipit: …tum ; viderunt iuvenem / sedentem in dextris Explicit: Et surgentes eadem hora Readings from Mark 16:5-7 for Easter Sunday and Luke 24:13-33 for the Monday after Easter
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