Ms. codex. In Italian and Latin. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ...obedientia a Beato Francisco. Collation: Parchment (fol. 1-56) and paper (fol. 57-74), fol. iii (paper) + 74 + iii (paper) ; 1-210 34+1 (fol. 25 tipped-in) 410 5-66 76+3 (fol. 54-56 singletons) 810 98 ; decorative catchwords, lower center or lower right corner of the final verso of most quires. Modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer recto of each leaf. Layout: 2 columns, 34 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind or light plummet. Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: 1- to 3-line red capitals throughout. Binding: 16th-century(?) limp vellum, title handwritten on spine: "Regole del/le monache/ di / s. chiara" and "Cod. [ ]/ saec. [ ]"; paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century for the use of a community of Poor Clares. Provenance: 17th-century inscription, fol. 1: "De usum sororis Marie de Albano et sororis Marie Cleophe de Sollario." Acquired by Acton Griscom (High Point, NJ) "from J. Martini through L. C. Harper", his no. 27 (see de Ricci, Census I:1166 and Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 33921). Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Paul Gottschalk in 1938 (SDBM 57058). Call number: MS q Med.118. Former call number: FR.96.C54. Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly XV (1940): 406-7.
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