Extent: 229 leaves : parchment : diagram, calendar ; 128 x 94 (86 x 61) mm. bound to 135 x 100 mm.
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Manuscript codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: fol. i (paper; i is pastedown) + 229 (parchment; foliated 1-229) + ii (paper; ii is pastedown); 18 26(-6, following fol. 13, with loss of text) 3-48 58(-2, following fol. 30, with loss of text) 6-208 218(-2, following fol. 157, with loss of text) 228 2310(-3, following fol. 173, with loss of text; -9, following fol. 178, with loss of text) 2410 258(-6, following fol. 194, with loss... Layout: Written in 18 long lines; frame-ruled; few marginal comments. Script: Written in hybrida libraria. Decoration: 7 large initials in burnished gold, 5- to 6-line, with pen flourishes in red and blue on fol. 14, 42v, 62v, 80, 98, 120v, 141; several 3- to 4-line initials in blue with red pen flourishes and in red with purple pen flourishes; 1- to 2-line initials alternating in red and blue Binding: later (16th- or 17th-century) blind tooled dark brown morocco over bevelled edge wooden boards; metal clasps; red sprinkled edges. Origin: Written in Cologne, Germany in 1477 for use in Cologne's cathedral. "Mcccclxxvij" (fol. 1). Calendar (fol. 1v-13) includes Cologne's local feasts, and the Suffrages of St. Peter, the Three Kings, and St. Reinold (fol. 221v-229v) suggest a connection to the Cathedral of Cologne. The calendar (fol. 1v-13) is graded, suggesting that this manuscript was made for a canon of the Cathedral of Cologne following Augustinian use. Shelfmark: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Library, Ms1487. Former owner's signature on front pastedown, partially obstructed by paper repair to split front board: F. Lu[cut off]. Bookseller's inventory number from Les Enluminures in pencil on rear pastedown: TM 1197.
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