Extent: 190 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 105 x 70 (55 x 24) mm
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Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 190; 110 24 310 48 59(+3) 68 79(+6) 88 910 108 1110 129(+5) 139(+3) 1410(lacking 1 leaf) 1511(+2) 168 179(+6) 18-218 2210(lacking 1 leaf) 232. Layout: Written in 16 long lines; ruled in violet ink. Script: Written in gothic textualis media. 1. Decoration: Thirteen illuminations on inserted leaves, each accompanied by a blue and gold acanthus spray border decorated with flowers and fruit; matching border on the facing page in the presence of gold, magenta, blue, and green initials, 5 lines high; a fourteenth illumination probably removed after fol. 79.; fol. 80, at the beginning of text, border only without the preceding... 2. Decoration: fol.1r, gold, magenta, blue, and green initials 5 lines high accompanied by a full border; sections of text marked by gold dentelle initials with white patterning on grounds of blue and magenta 2 lines high. Blue initials with red flourishes alternating with gold initials with blue-black flourishes. Origin: Written in Flanders, approximately 1460. Given to Edward E. Ayer by Martin and Carrie Ryerson, 16 November 1911, on the occasion of Ayer's seventieth birthday. His autograph note is on the second front flyleaf. "12/69" is written on the verso of the first flyleaf; "Femo" is written on the upper right-hand corner of the third back fly-leaf.
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