Script: Humanistic characters in red and brown ink. Headings in red. Names of the characters in the Bucolica set out in red. Initial of first word in each line is set out throughout the manuscript. Decoration: Ornamental border on three sides of the first page of text in gold and colors. Space for arms at foot not filled in. Eighteen large initials in interlace work in gold and colors, with spraying hair lines and gold bosses radiating hair lines in gold. Numerous blue initials throughout the text. Binding: Brown levant morocco extra, by Bedford. Seven vellum fly-leaves. Vellum cover linings. One initial “S” very badly damaged. Blue initials often faded. Illumination on the first page of text worn. Two marginal notes in later hands. Provenance: Bought by Henry Huth from Edward P. Boone, 1866. Huth bookplate inside front cover. Huth sale (London, 1919), No. 7776, to Francis Edwards. Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from Lathrop C. Harper.
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