Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Vellum (of very fine quality). i2, ii2, I24−3, II-III24, IV20, V-VIII24, IX24−2, X28, XI32, XII-XIII24, XIV22, XV24, XVI26, XVII-XXII24, XXIII12, XXIV-XXIX24, XXX-XXXI20, XXXII8+1; lacking first 3 folios, replaced by four folios in the sixteenth century; lacking 2 folios after fol. 201. Signatures preserved on fol. 662-674 (quire 29); first half of quire is signed "az" - "mz", first... Layout: 2 columns (35 mm each), 41 lines. Bounding lines full-length, bounding and writing lines in blind or plummet, some prickings partially preserved at top. Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink. Red rubrics. Decoration: Prologues begin with 4-line initials in gold and colors; chapter initials alternate 2-line red with blue filigree or blue with red filigree; verse initials stroked red. Fol. 2r: full-length historiated [I] with seven medallions showing the days of creation in gold and colors; each book begins with a 7- to 8-line historiated initial, eighty-one in all. Origin: Written in Paris in the thirteenth century. Saec. XIV ; XV dry-point glosses visible throughout, e.g. fol. 54. Sir Thomas Phillipps (lion rampant stamp on original front flyleaf, #502)
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