Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: [1-23], I-LXXII, LXXIIII-CXVI, [139]; contemporary foliation in red and blue Roman numerals, upper center verso; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; framed catchwords at the end of gatherings beginning on f. 47v. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 33-34 lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible. Script: Written in a Gothic hybrid script by two hands with annotations on the final folio and prayer on the front pastedown in later hands. Decoration: Rubricated throughout, alternating use of blue and red; 3-line penwork initials in red and blue (f. 24r, 68r, 106r). Binding: Contemporary pigskin, dyed red, over boards, with remnants of two clasps and leather strap on upper cover. Origin: Written in northern France or southern Germany, possibly in the southeastern Low Countries (Emery). Incipit: Queritur utrum theologia sit scientia (f. 1r). Colophon in a later (14th-15th century?) hand: Explicit excerptum Magistri petri de tarantasia super quator libros sententiarum Qui postea fuit Magister ordinis electusque est in summum pontificem (f. 139r). Date in a later hand: In die dorothe lxij [1362] (f. 139r). Prayer or invocation on inside upper cover lists names of angels and demons beginning, Lamech, Salmalaach, Helmahn... Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue. Formerly owned by Jacobus P. R. Lyell (bookplate, inside upper cover). Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.
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