Layout: 2 columns, 44 lines Decoration: 1 2-line initial "P" in red with constrasting penwork in blue, with opening of new textual section in red in second column of verso Previously recycled as wrapper for a later book (verso of folio = exterior of wrapper) Various later inscriptions, notes, and pen trials in margins of verso Ruled in faint plummet Edges of margins turned-in on all four sides (folding onto recto side) as part of folio's conversion into a later book cover Remains of laer paper--part of the the internal binding structure of the later book for which this leaf served as a wrapper--adhering to recto Provenance: Donated by Scott J. Gwara (Columbia, SC) in September 2023 Text on the biblical book of Esther, with text from the preface and the opening of the section entitled "De Ocho seu Artaxerxe". Incipit: Anno regni Assueri mense primo missa est Explicit: Mundior sum ego cadavere quo templum
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