Script: Gothic characters in red and brown ink in double columns. Headings in red. Rubrication of initials in text. Decoration: Two large ornamental initials on first leaves. Other initials in red and blue with pen and ink decoration. Binding: Early 15th century Italian binding, worn. Blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards. Central panels of knotwork. Evidence of clasps, now missing. Later paper spine label with large red 14 in bottom compartment. One of the ornamental initials is badly rubbed. Contemporary marginal annotations in a different, coarser hand in black and brown ink. Folios numbered twice in a modern hand. Front flyleaf retains sewing structure and stub of excised other half of bifolium. Front paper quire (15 fols.) is lacking 16, quire is wrapped and protected by a vellum sewing guard. Collation: I^16 (paper, 16 cancelled?), II-XX^12 Catchwords are preserved on all parchment quires but III and IV. Provenance: Fifteenth century inscription on inside of front board: "Liber iste pertinet ad locum heremite poccarie." Inscription on rear board: "Ista legenda sanctorum est concessa ad usum fratris Stephani de Perusio a fratre Andrea de Sancto Gemino tunc vicario provincie Sancti Francisci et pertinet ad locum Heremite Poncarie." Provenance: Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from L.C. Harper, November 1925. A popular explanation of the various holy feasts celebrated throughout the year. Preceded by fifteen leaves on paper, written toward the end of the 14th century and comprising passages on the lives of certain saints, some miracles of St. Anthony of Padua, and St. Louis, King of France. Two inscriptions in a 15th century hand indicate that the codex was intended for use by Franciscan monks.
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