Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 371 x 263 (259 x 165) mm
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Ms. leaf. Title from Kidd. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 47 lines; ruled in light plummet. Script: Written in bâtarde script. Decoration: 2-line initials alternating in blue with red pen flourishing and red with blue flourishing; chapter numbers and running headings in similarly alternating blue and red; line-fillers red and blue. Origin: Written in France, perhaps Paris, during the late 14th or early 15th century. Former shelfmark: F 091 Sp3 (1) From a parent volume that was probably the third of three volumes; volume owned by Guglielmo Libri, his sale at Sotheby's, June 1, 1864, purchased by Boone; acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps, offered but remained unsold at Sotheby's, June 6 1899, and offered again June 24, 1935; purchased by H.R. Creswick, librarian at the Bodleian and Cambridge University libraries, who extracted some leaves...
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