Layout: 2 columns, 48-55 lines Decoration: 2-line initials in red opening new texts, with pilcrow marks in red throughout the text fol. 305.8v: 6-line initial "D" in pink and white on burnished gold grounds and inhabited by two Roman soldiers scourging Christ Decoration: Fol. 305.10: On the recto, a 6-line "D" in pink and white inhabited by Christ crucified flanked by Mary and John; on the ver 2 complete bifolia, 3 individual columns, and one small piece from a corner of a different folio Alphabetical reference system at head of each column, possible a system for indexing the text's contents Discursive annotations added in the margins, sometimes extensively Some additions designating occasions on which to use particular sermons Occasional biblical and textual citations and references in the margins Recycled as binding fragments Later inscription on one of the folios: "Prothcollo del 1571", possibly indicating that these fragments were reused to bind a printed vol. made in 1571 recording the Frankenthal Disputation Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dreweatt's & Bloomsbury Auctions, 6 July 2016, lot 18 Two bifolia and three single columns of text preserving sermons for the Purification of the Virgin Mary, the first Sunday in Lent, on Mary Magdalene, a sermon on judgment, On innocents (presumably the Holy Innocents), the Ascension of the Lord, and the 20th Sunday after Trinity. Although the sermons' author is unidentified, there may be some overlap with the sermons of the Dominical preacher Peregrinus of Opole
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