Ms. Codex. Title from paper flyleaf ii, first count (19th century?) Collation: fol. ii (paper) + ii (parchment) + 81 + ii (paper); 1-26 34 42 Layout: Written in one column of 25 lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written by 2 scribes in Gothic bâtarde script: scribe 1, fol. 1r-17v; scribe 2: 17v. Decoration: 1 6-line initial with pen flourishes and decorative flowers showing the coat of arms of the viscounty of Turenne; red line-filler at end of main text decorated with foliage. Accompanying materials: With paper bifolium, written in French and Latin in the 18th century, describing manuscript. Origin: Written in France, perhaps in Turenne, in 1523. Belonged to Charles Chardin ("535 Chardin" on paper flyleaf ii (first count), from Catalogue des livres rares et précieux, de manuscrits, de livres imprimés ... de M. Chardin [1824]); shelfmark 2/H/276 may be his. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (armorial stamp on parchment leaf i and shelfmark at foot of fol. 1; his sale at Sotheby's 27 April 1903, no. 1147) Former shelfmark: 2/H/276. Former shelfmark: Phillipps ms 813.
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