Manuscript, in Latin, written by three hands in a hybrid gothic script in Northern France. Signatures, with catchwords: a-f12g-h10i-l12m14. 33 lines, ff. 1-43, 48v-142; 43 lines, ff. 44-48r. Watermarks of bull's head and cross (ff. 1-82) and anchor (ff. 83-142). Contains Petrarch's De contemptu mundi (ff. 1-43v), his Epistola de patientia (ff. 44-47), Alphonsus de Aragon's De morte non timenda (ff. 47v-48), Petrarch's De otio religiosorum (ff. 49-92v), and De vita solitaria (ff. 93-141). Three large red and blue divided initials with pen flourishes (ff. 1r, 23r, 49r) and three smaller ones (ff. 2r, 10v, 81v). Bound in an 18th-century French carved calf binding.
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