Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, 1 illumination ; 447 x 310 (312 x 207) mm
Note:
Ms. leaf. Title from Kidd. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 22 lines; frame-ruled with prickings in outer margins. Script: Written in formal gothic script. Decoration: One 2-line champie initial with leafy extensions; running titles and chapter numbers in characters alternating in red and blue. Origin: Written in England, East Anglia or, perhaps, Cambridge, during the mid 14th century. Foliated '108' in 18th- or 19th-century ink on upper right corner of recto. From a parent volume apparently used for communal monastic reading, as suggested by marginal annotations referring to readings and weekdays, perhaps 15th-century, probably in the province of York; apparently acquired and broken up by Myers & Co., booksellers of New Bond Street, London (1927); present leaf with 'Ecclesiastes' in pencil on lower right corner of recto, presumably by Myers & Co...
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