Extent: 76; 150 x 108 mm bound to 155 x 110 mm; parchment
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Suffrage to Saint Sebastian, added in later hand, fol. 75r Binding: Fifteenth-century original binding, leather over oak boards with remnants of clasps on upper board Layout: Single column of eighteen lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings in outer margin; written area: 85 x 55 mm; fols. 1-6 contain a calendar in four columns, the third blank, thirty-three ruled lines, single vertical bounding lines separate the columns; remains of prickings in outer margin; written area: 95 x 55 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: Full foliage borders bounded with red ink surround the text on fols.7r, 10r, 24r, 54r, 65r with penwork vine-stems, fruit, and flowers embellished with gold leaves and red, blue, pink, and green fruit and flowers; seven five-line gold initials beginning certain texts and numerous three- and two-line initials, including KL monograms in the calendar, with small penwork flourishes... Provenance: Written around 1450-60 in the Bruges region, Western Flanders according to Roger Wieck who examined the manuscript; early provenance unknown; illegible writing on inside front cover; in upper margin of fol. 1r in a later hand "nali 25 di settember me nato Carlo mio figliolo nel ano 1526."; given to Bryn Mawr College by Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania in 1984
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