Ms. codex. In Spanish. Title from opening rubric on fol. 4. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ...dicion. La bien... Collation: Parchment, fol. i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) + 34 + i (contemporary parchment free endpaper, conjugate to pastedown under paper) ; 1-48 52 ; catchwords in lower center margin of final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page. Layout: 1 column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet. Script: Written in a Spanish gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: 3-line initials throughout alternating blue filled with red on gold ink, or gold ink filled with red or blue on blue or red, twenty-eight in all. Opening three-quarter page miniature on fol. 1v of St. Clare standing in a walled courtyard holding a palm frond and displaying a host monstrance, with a deep landscape visible behind her, a city in the background at the right. Full... Binding: 16th-century black blind-tooled goatskin over boards, central panel gilt-stamped "YHS" with corner florets, front and back, hasps intact, lacking clasp bands, hinges worn, original blank parchment pastedowns (under contemporary paper pastedowns) with conjugate free endleaves. Origin: The Rule of the Order of St. Clare, written for the use of a community of Poor Clares in Spain. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan (SDBM 57068). Call number: MS f Med.140. Former call number: MS 1565. Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957): 64.
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