Extent: 168 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 385 × 265 mm (265 × 180) mm bound to 405 x 285 mm.
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Incipit: “Incipit Expositio Haimonis svper ysaiam Prophetam. Pręfatio. Ysaias propheta nobili prosapia ortus, filius fuit amos … per quam intelligitur tribus beniamin, eo quod in sorte eius sita sit.” Explicit: “…vel in hoc erit illorum sacietas, quia non gaudebunt de reproborum damnatione, sed de sua liberatione. Explicit expositio haimonis Svper ysaiam prophetam.” Ms. codex. Title from incipit (fol. 1r) Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (modern paper) + 168 + i (modern paper) ; quire marks at center bottom of last verso ; modern foliation in pencil. Layout: 41 lines per page in two columns ; ruled in brown. Decoration: Three Romanesque initials (fols. 1r and 17r) believed to be the work of a follower of the Alexis Master, one of the illuminators of the St. Albans Psalter. Lesser divisions are marked by 2-line initials in red, green, or red and green. Faint pen drawings added in outside margins in the later medieval period, including a grotesque fol. 11r and a nude woman fol. 28r. Manicules (fol... Origin: Produced in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Alban, in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in the mid-12th century. Following the dissolution of St. Albans Abbey in 1539, acquired by Thomas Brudenell of Deene, Northamptonshire. Intermediate provenance is unknown. An unidentified dealer's mark "A1644" is on the front pastedown in pencil. Robert Garrett purchased the manuscript from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
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