Layout: 1 column, 16 lines Decoration: 1 3-line initial "O" in blue with white penwork highlights and infilled with pink vinework terminating in orange, pink, and burgundy ivy leaves, all on burnished gold grounds Full border of acanthus leaves, vinework, ivy, and flowers, all in burnished and shell gold, blue, green, pink, red, and yellow. Decoration: Coat of arms at center of lower border consisting of quartered arms of silver and red fusilly (upper left and lower right) and 5 gold stars on red, a crowned lion on red, and crossed keys surmounted by a crown, and an unidentified coat of arms (upper right and lower left) Leaf trimmed at top, biting into the decorated border Ruled in pink ink Provenance: Private collection of Allen Rowland (and once on deposit at Yale University's Beinecke Library) Provenance: Countess Hélène de Fonsèque de Seguères, presented by her brother Claude de Fonsèque End of the Gospel reading from Mark 16:17-20, and the opening of the "Obsecro te" Incipit: autem eos qui crediderint hec se / quentur Explicit: quod tunc operatus est in te spiritus
Do you have more information to share with the Holding Institution about this manuscript or would you like to suggest a correction? Contact information is available for member institutions via our member directory.
