Extent: 24 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 406 x 265 (335 x 225) mm
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Ms. codex. Title from rubric (f. 1r). Incipit: Venerabili viro discretione scientia et moribus... Explicit: ...in eodem opere contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapientia et gratiarum actio honor virtus et fortitudo in secula seculorum, amen. Explicit libellus electionum editus a magistro Guillermo de Mandagote archidiacono Nemausis (f. 24r). Collation: Parchment, 24; 212; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35-44 lines with commentary framing the main text. Script: Written in a Gothic book script. Decoration: Historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes (f. 1r); rubricated in red and blue, with decorated initials with penwork ornamentation in red and blue, in both text and commentary. Origin: Written in France, possibly Avignon, in the early 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Same text as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 103. Parchment is brittle, cracking along outer edges of some leaves. Purchased, 1959.
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