Ms. codex. In Latin. Title from opening rubric. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: ...tolica & dicto capitulo... Collation: Parchment, fol. i (early paper) + ii (contemporary parchment) + 104 + ii (early paper) ; i2 1-264 ; original red Roman foliation, (not used here for reference) in upper outer corner of the recto; first flyleaf numbered 109 is ruled and conjugate with second ruled flyleaf. Layout: 1 column, 20 lines. Bounding and writing lines in red ink, bounding lines full-length. Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: 2-line initials throughout in gold on blue or red; fol. 1: 1/4-page miniature of the Crucifixion with St. Benedict (with crozier) standing behind a kneeling Celestine monk. Binding: Late 16th- or early 17th-century calf over boards, rebacked, central gilt cartouche, initials F.A./ SH on front and back (possibly added later), all edges gilt, bronze clasps (one of which, on the lower cover, is engraved with the initials "A W S H"), straps lacking, paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaf front and back; housed in a four-fold manilla wrapper. Provenance: The original owner of the volume was Charles-Benoit de Campigny (1569 - 1634). An early Latin inscription on second front flyleaf (formerly fol. 109 at the back of the volume?) indicates the book was sold by his brother Adam to an Orléans bookseller who sold it for 40 solidi Tournois, to the Celestine abbey of Notre-Dame d'Ambert (which added the ex-libris "De Amberto") where... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1992 from Maggs, Cat. 1137, European Bulletin No. 17 [1992], item 83. Call number: MS q Med.244. Former call number: MS 2724. Consult curatorial file for further information.
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