Explicit on recto of leaf [42]--"Explicit ysto[r]ia pa[ssio]nis d[omi]ni nostri i[es]hu [christ]i extracta de passione q[ui] sc[ri]psit Mag[iste]r Arma[n]dus doctor sacri palatij"--and similar chapter heading on verso of leaf [35] suggest that a section of the present text may have been written by Armand de Belvézer, a Franciscan friar who served as lecturer for Pope John XXII, and authored... Text in two rounded gothic bookhands in brown ink, arranged in two columns of 44 lines per page; alternating red and blue capitals, with contrasting blue, purple, or red penwork tracery; alternating red and blue paragraph strokes; headings in red; catchwords; bounding lines lightly ruled in brown; some natural parchment flaws, with text written around them. Marginal captions in bookhand; marginal corrections and instructions to rubricator in a different smaller hand. Tears in vellum leaves have been repaired with stitching. Leaves arranged in 18 quires of 12 leaves; first quire has 5 leaves, and third has 13 leaves. Front and back pastedowns are vellum leaves of early antiphonals, with square notation in brown arranged on red 5-lined staves, with Latin words in large rounded lowercase roman letters.
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