Ms. codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 494; 1-412 516 6-2612 2712(-6,7) 28-4112; catchwords. Layout: Written in 27 lines in two columns; ruled in plummet. Script: In Italian gothic textualis rotunda media. 1. Decoration: Eighteen historiated initials (2-5 lines high) in pink and gold on blue grounds with heads and busts only of human figures: fol. 1r, (Jesus blessing King David); fol. 11r, (King David pointing to his head); fol. 18r, (King David covering his mouth); fol. 25r, (head of a male figure "Dixit insipiens"); fol. 32r, (King David on the waters); fol. 40v, (King David ringing bells... 2. Decoration: Alternating red initials with violet flourishes and blue initials with red flourishes throughout. Origin: Written in Italy, perhaps central Italy, in the middle of the 14th century No. 9 from the collection of Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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