Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ... sium a dierum ... Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 34 + ii (modern paper) ; 1-26 36−2 (final two leaves cancelled) ; lower right corner recto in first half of each quire signed 1-6 in 14th-century arabic numerals. Catchwords in lower right corner, last verso of each quire, contained within a border. Original arabic foliation in brown ink, upper right corner of each recto, begins with 55 and... Layout: Bounding and writing lines in light brown plummet or in blind. Script: Written in a gothic cursive (cursiva libraria) in brown ink. Decoration: Seven- to nine-line "puzzle" initials in blue and gold with blue and red filigree on fol. 9v and 25v, three-line blue and red initials elsewhere, red or blue paragraph markers. Geometric diagrams on fol. 26, 27, 27v, 28v, 33v in brown ink, illustrating Canones de sinibus. Binding: 18th-century green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London, gilt filllet border, edges and turn-ins, title gilt on spine, "JOH. DE SAXONIA. JOH. DE LINNERIIS CANONES TABULARIA MS. XIV CENTURY," paper endleaves and pastedowns. Origin: Written in France at the end of the fourteenth century. Originally fol. 55-80 of a larger manuscript, probably containing the Alphonsine Tables. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from A. Rosenthal in 1939. BPL bookplate inside front cover. Call number: MS f Med.96. Former call number: MS 1523.
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