Extent: fols. 139; parchment; 150 x 100 (97 x 55) mm
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Layout: Single column, seventeen or sixteen lines of text per page. Script: Gothic characters in red and brown ink. Decoration: Four large miniatures depicting the Crucifixion, the Descent of the Holy Ghost, David in Penitence, and Job. Illuminated initials. Six floriated borders. Binding: 17th century? full leather with gold tooling. Calendar pages are badly worn. Beginning of the Sequentia of the Gospels is missing, as are the miniature for the Annunciation and the beginning prayers for Matins. A miniature, probably of St. John, between folios 11-12 or 12-13 is also missing. Marginal notation in a modern hand. Folios incorrectly numbered in a modern hand. Collation: I^6, II^2, III^4 (1 cancelled), IV^1 (singleton), V^8 (wants 1), VI^8 (wants 6), VII-XVI^8, XVII^8 (4 cancelled), XVIII-XIX^8, XX^8 (3 and 6 singletons), XXI^4 (wants 3 and 4) Provenance: Gift of William Ellery Greene, May 1957. Imprint of ink on front endleaf that is not from the currently adjoining first folio; possible lacking a first folio or first gathering?
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