Extent: 154 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 248 x 150 (202 x 59) mm bound to 264 x 168 mm
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Layout: Written in 60 long lines; ruled in lead; some prickings visible. Incipit: Scire cupis lector quis codicis istius autor, Audi quid breviter dicat ad ista liber: Petrus et Aegidius me conscripsere...[Aegidius' preface from his second redaction, before 1208]. Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Foliation: Parchment, 154; [1-154]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Ms. codex. Origin: Written in France, mid-13th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Decoration: Red and blue used for initials; rubricated headings throughout; diagram or chart of the deadly sins (f. 50r); faint sketch of the Virgin[?] (f. 125). Binding: Modern half leather over wooden boards with old guards (2 vellum incunable leaves from a canonical text with commentary, probably printed by Peter Schöffer of Mainz). Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal commentary in a second hand.
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