Script: Gothic characters in black ink. Decoration: Large initial "N" at beginning of prologue, painted in red, green, and white on a blue ground bordered in red. Large initial "V" at beginning of text in blue, rose, green, and gold. Next to this initial are the letters "ISIO" painted vertically in gold backgrounds of blue and rose. Decoration: These two large initials are executed in the French Romanesque style, typical of which is the irregular interlace patterns which subdivide and variate the surface of the initials so that, as in the case of the "V" (f.3r), the form of the initial itself is almost completely lost. Binding: 18th century calf, badly worn. Paper fly-leaves and cover linings. Provenance: Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from J. Martini, catalog 16 (1920) no. 7. Provenance: "Bibliothece Weissenau" inscribed on recto of first vellum leaf. Sale of William Morris (London, 1898, No. 587), to J&J Leighton.
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