Binding: Quarter bound calf, nineteenth century. Other decoration, ff. i-iv (front and back flyleaves): 2- and 3-line initials in gold with white-patterned pink and green infilling on square white-patterned blue grounds; 1-line initials within text washed with pale yellow. Script, ff. i-iv (front and back flyleaves): Humanistic. Layout, ff. i-iv (front and back flyleaves): 24 long lines; ruled. Other decoration, ff. 1r-191v: 2- and 3-line initials in red, sometimes decorated in void; paraph marks in red. Number of scribes, ff. 1r-191v: Several. Script, ff. 1r-191v: Gothic and humanistic cursive. Layout, ff. 1r-191v: 2 columns of 36 lines; ruled in ink.
Former Owner(s):
In an envelope with the manuscript, the remains of the bookplate of George John Warren Vernon (1803-1866), fifth Baron Veron; CSL accession number 22953.
ff. 1r-191v: The date on the last leaf, 1338, is that of the composition of the text, not of this copy. ff. i-iv (front and back flyleaves): Continuous sequence of text from book 4 if read in the following order: f. iii r-v, ff. i r-ii v, f. iv r-v. ff. 1r-191v: On f. 191v, column b, the resume' known as the Breviarum decretorumoften attributed to Johannes de Deo (see, for example, Jordan and Wool, Inventory of Western Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosianaregarding A 147 sup).
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