Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 114; collation impracticable. Layout: Written in 14 long lines; ruled in violet ink. Script: Written in gothic textualis quadrata media. Decoration: Two extant miniatures accompanied by full red, blue, and gold acanthus spray borders decorated with various flowers and fruits in the presence of blue, magenta, and gold initials 3 lines high; fol. 47r (Catherine, face repainted?); fol. 57r (the Presentation in the Temple); eleven folios with miniatures removed after fol. 25, 34, 48, 52, 54, 59, 60, 64, 81(?), 82(?), 85 and 114... Origin: Written in France, probably in Rouen in about 1450. Former owner: Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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