Manuscript codex. A paraphrase of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Laurence de Premierfait's amplified version in French prose of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium. Imperfect: Some shrinkage due to water damage; portions of the text at beginning and end rendered illegible; ink has eaten through the parchment at end; 2 leaves between number [189]-[190] lacking; number [197]-[198] belong after number [192]; other leaves may be lacking. All leaves badly water-stained, with extensive loss of text. The scribe has omitted 5 stanzas on number [96] and all 12... Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 16 2-188 19-206 218 226 2310 248 (4-5 removed with loss of text) 268(+1); error in binding: fol. 197-198 should follow fol. 192; catchwords in scrolls Layout: Written in 42 lines in two columns; prickings visible. Script: Written in secretary cursiva formata incorporating anglicana traits. Decoration: Blue, magenta, and green initials on gold grounds 6 lines high at the beginning of each book; on fol. 1, accompanied by full acanthus spray border in the same colors; at the beginning of books I-VIII, accompanied by single column borders (these borders by an illuminator active in London approximately 1455-1475, who decorated books written by the scribe Ricardus Franciscus, consult... Origin: Written in London, approximately 1470 as indicated by the decoration and the dialect. Bookplates: George E. Leighton, Saint Louis; George B. Leighton of Monadnock Farms.
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