Extent: iii+146+iii; 202 x 135 mm bound to 213 x 140 mm; parchment
Former Owner(s):
Duprès, Marguerite
Note:
Flyleaves are old parchment, possibly original Calendar is in Bâtarde script Binding: Modern red velvet with parchment endpapers Layout: One columns of twenty lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 120 x 65 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Script: Bâtarde Decoration: Thirteen large miniatures and five small miniatures; full foliate borders with gold and brown geometric backgrounds surrounding each large miniature; three-sided foliate borders with gold and brown geometric backgrounds surrounding each small miniature; illuminated initials with leaf sprays and line fillers throughout Related resource: Hirsch, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehaigh University, 1970), p. 28, no. 17. Provenance: Belonged (XVIth c.) to Marguerite Duprès (her inscription, verso of penultimate flyleaf); Benart, L.; purchased by Lehigh University (8 September 1881) from L. Benart, of Saint-Denis, and Mallet, Paris
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