Extent: 158; 335 x 225 mm bound to 355 x 243 mm; parchment
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Pagination 224-227 repeats Binding: Original binding, blind-stamped calf over wooden boards Layout: One column of forty-one lines; frame-ruled in red ink with double bounding lines; blank leaves before and after text ruled for two columns; written area: 235 x 115 mm Script: Humanistic Cursive Script: Scribe: Joannes Helewaert Decoration: Illuminated initials, from two to five lines, the larger ones mostly on gold wash ground, with botanical illustrations, and the smaller ones in gold on colored grounds; large twelve- or thirteen-line initials at the three book divisions (pages 1, 155, 240); chapter titles and author names in red ink Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1990, no. 9. Related resource: Hirsh, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), pp. 26-27, no. 14. Provenance: Acquired from Bailieu (Paris), 9 September 1881 (deRicci)
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