Extent: 1 volume (124 leaves) : parchment ; 20 x 14 cm bound to 21 x 14 cm
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Ms. codex. Title devised by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. i (paper) 124 + i (paper); 12 26 3-48 58(±5,6) 68 76 88(±5,6, -7,8) 98 108(±7,8) 118 128(±2,3) 13-148 15-204. Foliation in pencil: leaves 3-32 foliated 1-31, leaves 33-123 foliated 22-114, leaf 124 foliated 116. Layout: Written in long lines of 20; frame-ruled in light red ink. Script: Written in a hybrida formata in two hands; the first hand shows influence from humanist scripts, the second, later hand is rather clumsy and appears only on inserted leaves in quires 5 and 12. Decoration: Illuminated initials throughout, many decorated with botanical images; full page illustrations on leaf [2]v and leaf 47r of SS. Peter and Paul; half-page illustration on leaf 24v of the Annunciation. Miniatures, apparently added contemporaneously to the illustration of Peter and Paul, depicting John (fol. 8r), Luke (fol. 9r), Matthew (fol. 10r), Mark (fol. 11r), Golgotha (fol... Origin: Likely written in southern France during the late fifteenth century, with illuminations and some leaves added in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 302.
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