Extent: 144 leaves : paper, ill. ; 139 x 95 (102 x 67) mm bound to 15 cm, in box 18 cm
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Ms. codex. In Latin and Flemish. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Title devised by cataloger. Secundo folio: (fol. 3) ...sal beghinnen met gheboeck... Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 144 + ii ; 1-188 ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto, numbers flyleaves as well so reaches 147 instead of 144. Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and ruling lines in light plummet. Rhythmic mensural notation on a 4-line black staff. Script: Written in a Flemish humanistic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: 2-line red initials with white space throughout, some in red and black; later (17th-century) medallion engravings pasted to blanks on fol. 1, 24v, 25v, 146, 147. Binding: Original blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, IHS/ Crucifixion gilt-stamped medallion center front and back, bronze clasps and catches intact, paper pastedown with conjugate flyleaf at front and back, rebacked, spine liners from s. XIV/XV manuscript at front at back. Spine liners from 14th- and 15th-century manuscript at back. Origin: Written in Flanders in the sixteenth century. Provenance: Nineteenth-century shelfmark 4452 on paper label affixed to front cover. 19th- and 20th-century dealers' notes in pencil inside front cover. Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown. Call number: MS q Med.255.
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