Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Pagination: Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 165 + i (19th-century paper); [i--xxii], 1-308; late 19th- or early 20th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Layout: Written in twelve long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink. Script: Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script, with versicles, responses, and antiphons written in a slightly smaller version of the script. Decoration: 7 large arched miniatures with full foliate borders and three lines of text with a three-line illuminated initial on gold ground, all badly damaged (Nativity, p. 98; Annunciation to the Shepherds, p. 114; Presentation in the Temple, p. 125; Flight to Egypt, p. 139; Owner before Virgin and Child?, p. 210; Pietà, p. 222; Funeral with monks, p. 225); one full foliate border (p. 1); 1... Binding: Late 19th-century leather, gilt tooling; gilt spine title Manuscrit venant de la Ville de La Mothe; marbled endpapers. Origin: Written in France in the late 15th century. Purchased together with Contre-partie du manuscrit de Lamothe, Ms. Codex 1870, University of Pennsylvania. Formerly owned by the DeGoix family in the 17th century, with inscriptions by Jean DeGoix (p. 144, partly legible, with reference to another possible owner, Jean Felix Dénie (?), and La Motte) and Jeanne DeGoix (p. 190-191). Formerly owned by notary and amateur antiquarian Antoine Joseph Rérolle, Autun, Saône-et-Loire (inscription, p. ii), who bought it in the late 19th century from an elderly woman of Outremécourt, at which time it was already badly damaged by dust and mice and lacked its beginning, end, and initials that had been cut out (account in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870); he reassembled the... Formerly owned by G.A. Jansen op de Haar, 1982; purchased from antiques dealer Simone Comode, 19 rue Cocand, Autun (acquisition note in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870). Sold at auction by Adams Amsterdam Auctions (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 19 June 2017, lot 180.
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