Extent: 122 leaves : parchment ; 173 x 126 (105 x 74) mm
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Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment. 1-26, 36−1, 4-88, 98−1, 108, 118+2, 12-168; cancels after fol. 17 and [55], fol. 79 and 80 are singletons. Some catchwords preserved. Modern pencil foliation skips fol. 19 and 25 and so reaches 120 instead of 122, but used here for reference. Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines full-length, bounding and writing lines in red ink, some prickings preserved along outer and lower edge. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: Seven 4-line initials in salmon or blue on gold background with white-vine infill and grotesques, 3/4 borders of vines and scrolling acanthus in gold and colors with birds and grotesques; 2-line gold initials throughout filled with blue on salmon background or gold filled with salmon on blue background; initials in text alternate blue with red, or gold with blue or brown... Origin: Written in Northern France in the late fifteenth century. A possible origin in Arras is indicated by use of the Office of the Dead and the calendar (St. Vedast of Arras (10/1) and his translation (7/15) are both indicated in red on dates peculiar to Arras) Eighteenth-century owners' portraits on clasps. Two nineteenth-century English dealer's descriptions pasted inside front cover.
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