Binding: Dutch seventeenth-century gold-tooled parchment Layout: Single column of thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled with single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines, ruled full across in ink; prickings extant; written area: 215 x 145 mm Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata Decoration: Rectangular border along upper and inner margin of text with a gold ground framed in black with vines, scrolls, fruits, and flowers and one six-line blue and white scrolled initial (fol. 1r); ten prayers introduced by two-line initials alternating between monochrome and gold initials (fol. 6v); a single pen and ink two-line inhabited initial depicting a man's profile (fol. 24v... Provenance: Written in Rouen after 1507. Early provenance unknown. P. A. Bolongaro-Crevenna collection, Amsterdam (Catalogue raisonné de la collection de livres de M. Pierre Antoine Crevenna à A. 1775, V, 37) (sale, April 1790, lot 5780 [on paper label inside front cover]); in the collection of Thomas Johnes of Hafod, the seventh Duke of Newcastle (his "Magnificent library"), sold by order of...
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