Script: English pointed characters, large for text, smaller for commentary, and very fine for interlinear gloss, in red and brown ink. Initials in text in red. Decoration: Large initial beginning of commentary in red and blue ink. Numerous initials in brown ink with pen and ink flourishes. Paragraph marks in red and brown ink. Binding: 17th-century calf, rebacked. Blind tooling in a diaper pattern. Paper cover linings. Front and back fly-leaves are of two different papers, watermark on back fly-leaf reads: "VAPRIO." Provenance: Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of Chapin Library from L.C. Harper. Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Phillipps sale, April 1903, No. 148 (De Ricci assigns Phillipps Ms. 3970). Collation: 22 gatherings [i-xxj^8, xxii^5]. Commentary begins on the first page: "Notandum quod haec scriptura ita allegoricis fidem rerum gestarum non ammittat. diditur autem genesis a suo principio secundum morem hebreorum qui ex principijs maxime nomina libris imponunt...."
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