Layout: 2 columns, 50 lines Decoration: Numerous 2- and 4-line initials in alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color; distinction numbers and running titles in red and blue characters; rubricated openings for distinctions and chapters; and penwork cadels extending the axcenders on the top lines and some of the descenders on the bottom lines of text Ruled in plummet Substantial reader-added marginalia on Fol. 425.3, with reader-added cross references on the other folios Provenance: Original codex ex-libris Edward Walmsley (18th-century collector) and later sold at Sotheby's in March 1795 Provenance: Original codex ex-libris Nell and Charles Wheeler and later sold at auction in NY, 29 July 1919, lot 593 Provenance: Original codex ex-libris C. Lindsay Ricketts (see Seymour de Ricci's Census..., Vol. I, p. 646, no. 185) and later sold at Parke-Bernet (NY), 24 February 1929, lot 280. Codex was already missing folios by 1910 when private collector John Frederick Lewis acquired numerous individual folios (now at the Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis T373 and T374, 3 total fols.) Incipit: Fol. 425.1: // de sapientia ingenita vel a sapientia ingenita . Et cum Fol. 425.2: // quia etsi angelus est spiritus circumscriptus summus tamen Fol. 425.3: // mortalitatis . Et obligacione peccati . Quod prima nativitate Explicit: Fol. 425.1: etiam divina natura sit . Ostendit Hilarius // Fol. 425.2: Deus praescivit hunc lecturum vel aliquid huiusmodi . Sed potest // Fol. 425.3: Venit species et desiit spes . Ita et Christus // Fol. 425.1: Bk. I, Dist. 32-33 Fol. 425.2: Bk. I, Dist. 37-38 Fol. 425.3: Dist. 25-26
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