Ms. codex. Title from flyleaf, in a later hand. Verses 64-73 pasted on f. [ii] recto in contemporary hand; some marginalia trimmed and lost. Collation: Paper, 342; 1-1816 1918 20-2216; [ii], 1-317, 319-340, [i]; misnumbered at 318, no loss of text. Foliation and line numbering in a later hand. Signatures at bottom right; catchwords at bottom center, often cropped. Layout: Written in 31-37 long lines; text block boundaries ruled in drypoint. Script: Written in Gothic cursive, with the first words or first line at the beginning of sections in bâtarde script; f. 306-322v (a single gathering) in a second hand. Decoration: Many 2- and 3-line initials in red; capital at beginning of each line stroked with yellow; rubrication in red, often with cropped notes for rubrication or illustration barely visible at edge of page; spaces for illumination, approximately 9 lines in height, are frequent at the beginning of the manuscript but disappear in the second half (after f. 171v). Watermark: Gatherings 1-19, Briquet 1799 (1474); gatherings 20-22 include Briquet 1548 (1463), 1701 (1454), and 1546 (1457). Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked; wormholes in boards, leather, and text near spine. Origin: Written in France after 1474, based on primary watermark. Signatures: Marcel (inside upper cover); Delaplanches (f. 1r). Sold in the Ashburnham collection at auction at Sotheby's, 10 June 1901, lot 607. Sold by Librairie J. Thiebaud, 1950.
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