Manuscript codex. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. 164 (fol. 159-164, paper 16th century); 112 28 36 4-108 122 12-138 148 152 16-218 226. Layout: Written in 14 long lines; ruled in violet ink; calendar ruled for 17 lines. Script: Written in gothic textualis rotunda media. Decoration: Thirteen half-page miniatures accompanied by full acanthus spray borders decorated with many hybrid animal-men figures, exotic birds, and fantastic creatures: fol. 13r (Four evangelists in four panels); fol. 27r (the Annunciation); fol. 38v (the Visitation); fol. 55r (the Nativity); fol. 61 (the Annunciation to the shepherds in the field; in margin: naked bird-man or -woman with... Origin: Written in France, probably in Rouen in about 1470. Former owner's annotations: fol. 1-2 in margins, nine unidentified proverbs in Latin, Greek, and French, dated twice 1595, all by one hand, possibly the same as that which added prayers on fol. 159-163. Former owner's inscription: A. Schinkel Anno 1843. Former owner: Henry Probasco. Forms part of the Henry Probasco Collection at the Newberry Library.
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