Layout: 1 column, 15 lines Decoration: Text enclosed on three sides (left, right, and bottom) within thin gold and blue bars, from which a thick, lush spray of rinceaux terminating in red, blue, and gold leaves extend to fill all four borders Ruled in pink ink Water damage apparent in border decoration suffered during a flood in August 1846 when in the library of John Boycott Jarman Provenance: Private collection of John Boycott Jarman (†1864) Provenance: Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 47 Provenance: Private collection of Edward Arnold Provenance: Sotheby's, 6 May 1929, lot 240 Provenance: Private collection of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), his MS.W.MS.103 (broken and dispersed by Beatty) Provenance: Remnant of codex sold at Sotheby's, 24 June 1969, lots 58 and 58 A-K Original parent manuscript illuminated by the Mazarine Master and his workshopm.cccc.viii quo ceciderunt pontes parisius", referring to the 1408 flood that washed away the Petit Pont, Grand Pont, and the Pont Neuf, on 29-31 January 1408 The manuscript's scribe dated his work in a colophon: "Factum est anno Incipit: angustijs et necessitatibus / meis Explicit: tribu / at et victoriam contra omnes Text from the "Obsecro te" Marian prayer
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