Extent: 25 leaves : parchment, illustrations, music ; 480 x 285 (315 x 195 ) mm bound to 410 x 295 mm
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Ms. codex. Title from Kidd. Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) + 25 + ii (paper) (foliated i-xvi, 17-27); 1-28 34 46−1. Layout: Written in 9 lines; ruled. Script: Written by 2 scribes in Gothic script: scribe 1, fol. 1r-16v; scribe 2, fol. 17r-23v. A third scribe in 17th script, fol. 23v-25v. Decoration: large initial on fol. 1r with red and blue ornamentation, infilled with penwork tracery highlighted in green and purple. Another large initial was cut from fol. 13. 57 staff-high initials, many with red highlights, surrounded and infilled with doliate traceries. Two initials have sketches: fol. 18r, bearded human face with pointed cap; fol. 22v, monkey in green hood reading a book... Music: contains staff notation (4 line) Inscribed "Arnoldus Bols filius custodis Werchtersensis 1776" (fol. 22r), i.e. Arnoldus Bols (1757-1806). Rev. Edward Heneage Paget (1828-1884): inscribed "Bought at Mechlin [i.e. Mechelen], Jan[ua]ry 2nd 1852. Edward H Paget. Brussels." (fol. 25v), and the inside front cover with his armorial bookplate. An "Ordo fratrum minorum secundum consuetudinem Curiæ" inscribed "Edward Paget, Brussels...
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