Extent: vi + 119; 180 x 130 bound to 184 x 131; parchment
Former Owner(s):
Carthusians of Treviso
Note:
First leaf (penciled foliation [2]) has small illegible name in upper left, potential previous owner; "August 1818" Multiple misnumbered/out of order foliation numbers; in the 90s, foliation is sometimes partially cut off the top of the page Binding: Original wooden boards and pigskin; lined with a parchment leaf of a 13th century theological text Layout: One column, 29 lines, occasional leaves are frame ruled but most are not ruled; first quire is entirely frame ruled and prickings are made along the ruling lines; prickings visible on the edges of pages throughout the rest of the quires Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata Decoration: Three diagrams, with explanation, of the Arbor virtutum, the first having the Sacramentum corporis Domini nostri Jesu Christi as its trunk (ff. 56r-58v) Provenance: Owned by the Carthusians of Treviso, f. 44 signed "per manum Walteri fratris Carth(usiani)"; in Paris, 1818; n. 10 in a French 14th century collection; Dr. David King collection at Newport; his sale (New York, 12 May 1884, II, n. 2344); acquired by Lehigh in 1887
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