Text in a large gothic hand in dark brown ink; 20 lines per page; margins and lines of text lightly ruled in red; one paragraph mark in red; one illuminated capital on red and blue background, decorated with fine white penwork. Ms. note on front endpaper: "Fragment of a life of St. Margaret in Old French verse. Its first 39 lines agree, on the whole, with verses 24-64 of a rédaction [?] which A. Joly published, Paris 1879, from the Ms. 1555 of the Bibl. Nationale, on pp. 99-118 of his book, 'La vie de sainte Marguerite: poeme inédit de Wace, et suivi de diverse textes inédits'; but from line 40 onward, this... Forms part of the Howard Mayer Brown Collection at the Newberry Library.
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