Extent: 107 leaves : parchment ; 159 x 98 (116 x 55) mm
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Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 107; 1-712 86 912 106(-6); trace of old signatures gu-qv indicated that six initial quires of the manuscript are missing and that one quire from the first text lacking at an early date; horizonal catchwords, beginning with quire b within double rectangles. Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in lead point, double boundary lines in brown crayon for first text, single boundary lines for second text. Script: Written in secretary cursica media by two hands; first hand shows chancery influences; the second hand is more current. Decoration: Blue initials with red flourishes throughout; fol. 1r: flourished extended to form an outer and upper bracket border; fol. 1-24, names of authorities underlined in red; red touched used as punctuation. Origin: Written in England in the middle of the 15th century. Former owner's inscription fol. 100v: Nota hic de occisione Magistri Walter Daychs. A few secretary and anglicana marginal notes, 15th century. In 1879, Mrs. James F. Watermann of Sycamore, Illinois, presented this codex to the Chicago Historical Society, her signature and inscription commemorating her gift on the third front flyleaf.
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