Extent: 53 leaves : parchment ; 260 x 185 (205-210 x 130-140) mm bound to 275 x 195 mm.
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Incipit: “Qualiter et quare Dominus Nicholaus de Venetiis et Domina (sic) Marcus transierunt ad partes orientales. Capitulo primo. Tempore quo Balduinus princeps sceptra constantinopolitani imperii gubernabat. Anno C. ab incarnacione Domini millesimo CCliio ... Explicit: “In mari illo Insule quedam sunt in quibus nascuntur et capiuntur gerfalci et herodii qui Inde postmodum ad diuersas prouincias et regiones deferuntur. Explicit liber Domini Marchi Pauli de Venetiis.” Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. List of missing leaves (fol. iir). List of chapters beginning with chapter 26 (fol. 1r). Manicules. Collation: Parchment ; fols. ii (modern paper) + 53 + ii (modern paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil. Layout: 37 lines per page. Description: Rubricated ; widespread use of red for underlining and highlighting letters. Decoration: Chapters open with 2- to 3-line red initials. The final explicit in fere-Textualis script with calligraphic ascenders and every second word in red. Owned by John Bulkeley (15th century?); Lord Leonard Grey, Viscount Grane (ca. 1490-1541); Edward Clive (later Edward Herbert), 2nd Earl of Powis (1785–1848) passed by descent to Edward James Herbert Powis (1818–1891), 3rd Earl of Powis, sold in 1923 to the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch who sold the manuscript in 1929 to Robert Garrett (1875-1961). His gift to the Princeton University...
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