Style of binding suggests that it was bound in or for the Charterhouse of Saint Barbara, Cologne Fols. 2-12 missing with no apparent loss of text Binding: Fifteenth-century German binding; brown calf on boards, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern decorated with roses, fleur-de-lis, eagles; center panels decorated with small medallions depicting the mother and child on the crescent moon; two split brass fastenings on upper board with two corresponding shield-shaped fastenings on the lower board with traces of leather straps, traces of... Layout: Single column, thirty-eight lines with vertical bounding lines usually full length in brown ink, and rulings in hardpoint or lead; prickings visible in the four corners where the bounding lines intersect with the top and bottom ruled line; written area: 205 x 120 mm Script: Humanistic Script: Scribe: Lambert Leynen (colophon, fol. 260r) Decoration: Two seven-line decorated initials in blue and pink; three- to four-line initials alternating in red or blue throughout; headings, sentence, and paragraph markers in red; running chapter numbers in ink in center of margin, recto Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1677, no. 26. Related resource: Marks, Richard Bruce, The Medieval Manuscript Library of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne, Analecta Cartusiana 21-22 (Salzburg, 1974), pp. 224-25. Provenance: Written in Rome in 1462 by Lambert Leynen, probably a cleric from the low countries (see Goldschmidt catalogue entry). The manuscript belonged to the library of the Carthusian Charterhouse of Saint Barbara in Cologne (St. Barbara's new number: O 35 on spine). Inside back cover pastedown part of a folded parchment document dated 145?, Rome. Probably in the collection of Leander van...
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