Manuscript codex. Title from opening rubric. Subtitle devised by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, i (i is pastedown) + 123 (foliated 1-123 in an early hand) + ii (ii is pastedown); 1-158 168?(-2, between fol. 121 and 122, with loss of text; -5-8?); quires 1-14 signed i-xiiii; some horizontal catchwords to right of center. Note in a 14th-century hand at the bottom of 121v: "hic deficit I folio"; fol. 121v ends with "qua terminata iterum dedica[tione]" and fol. 122r... Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines, above line; frame-ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines; prickings often visible in margins. Script: Written in Gothica textualis formata/libraria by a single scribe; abbreviated; minim strokes are uniform, but not so uniform as to cause confusion; decently spaced. Decoration: Large decorated red initials; rubrication throughout; section and running titles in red; foliation in red; spaces sometimes left, as on fol. 101r, for drop capitals, not filled in. Music: musical notation added by early reader in bottom margin of fol. 46r-47r and 106r; on fol. 46r-47r, mostly erased musical notation on 4-line staves, C clef on top line, and text beneath; on fol. 106r, faded musical notation on 5-line staff, without text. Binding: Worn leather over thick beech wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; evidence of bosses, now lost, on front and rear boards; evidence of chains, now lost, on rear board; black morocco lettering pieces with gilt title and former call number added in 20th century. Origin: Early 13th century based on script and placement of first line of text above ruling; likely produced by/for a German monastery as suggested by provenance evidence. Former shelfmark: England, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps MS 408. Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, BS558.L3P5. Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms120. Readers' annotations and manicules in many hands from 13th or 14th century to 18th century suggesting monastic ownership; includes many "scratch" manicules and some notes of a corrective or additive nature. A good number of notes have been erased or partially erased, as on fol. 11v next to the top red paraph sign in the margin; the purpose of this erasure is not clear, as other notes, some of...
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