Extent: 206 leaves : paper ; 280 x 200 (195 x 150) mm
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Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Paper (watermark Y, cf. Briquet 9173-9185), fol. 206; collation impracticable; catchwords mostly removed; traces of alphabetical leaf signatures visible on some rectos, a second sequence by a different hand visible on some versos beginning with Book II. Layout: Written in 39-44 long lines; frame ruled in very light plummet. Script: Written in gothic cursiva media; fol. 77r: heading and incipit in lettre bâtarde. Decoration: Alternating red and blue minor initials. Origin: Written in France in the middle of the 15th century. Number 616 in the collection of Joseph Barrois; "616" written on a faded green circular sticker on spine, same number on verso of front flyleaf. Sold to Lord Ashburnham in 1849, recorded Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Palace (London, 1862); Eighth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Appendix, part 3 (London, 1861), p. 96. Sold at Sotheby's 10 June 1901, lot no. 155; "155" written in blue crayon within a circle on verso of first front flyleaf; partially obscured by a clipping from a later English sales...
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