Manuscript is composed two gatherings of scrap parchment of poor quality; layout of text follows available space Binding: Thin pasteboard consisting of three layers of paper, including patterned, red outer wrapping Layout: One column of thirty-three to thirty-eight lines, hard point ruling, prickings are visible Script: Protogothic Script: Hands of two scribes evident; both hands alternate throughout the manuscript Decoration: Two-line red initials throughout; red-marked litterae notabiliores throughout Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2050, no. 137. Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 8, no. 5. Provenance: Convent of Saint Denis at Rheims, France, no. 10; Sir Thomas Phillipps, stamp of his Middle Hill Library; his sale London, Sotheby's, April 24, 1911; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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