Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 223 (six unfoliated leaves followed by leaves with original foliation in red roman numerals: 2-9, 11-145, 147-158, 160-221); 18(7-8 stubs only) 210(-1, -10 with loss of text) 3-1510 1612(-6 with loss of text) 178(7 stub only with loss of text) 18-2210 2310 +1; catch words begin with quire 4, preceded and followed by a point. Layout: Written in 31 long lines; canon written in 16 long lines; prickings in outer margins; ruled in brown ink. Script: Written in Spanish textualis rotunda formata; vertical line enders characteristic of Spain. Decoration: fol. 153r, 172r, 176v, 183v, bracket acanthus margins in green, orange, violet, blue, and gold; fol. 153r, green dragon in upper margin, exotic birds in lower margin; fol. 172, face of a man in lower margin; fol. 176v, parrot in upper margin, exotic bird and purple dragon below; fol. 183v, exotic bird and infant in left margin; fol. 210, modern pen floral decoration added; deep... Music: Noted music. Origin: Written in Spain after 1461, as indicated by transalpine feast dates of calendar, script, and border decorations, for a Carthusian convent, as indicated by the calendar. It is possible that this book comes from the convent at Aniago, founded in 1441 by Mary of Aragon, wife of John II of Castile. Number 40 from the collection of Henry Probasco. Former owner's inscriptions: fol. 203r, a sixteenth-century corrector has added to the Suffrage to All Saints, "adque (sic) beati Brunonis confesoris tui;" fol. 203v, in the Votive Mass, "Pro gernalis," the same corrector has added "Et famulos tuos, papam, regem, reginam et principes nostros cum prole regia et nos ab omni adversitate custodi ..." This is the same hand that added text no. 18. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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