Binding: Contemporary binding; pigskin over oak boards, with worm damage; groove for clasp is visible on the front cover; spine reinforced in early twentieth century; binding partially detached Layout: Written in one column of twenty-three lines; frame-ruled in dry point with double bounding lines; prickings visible; written area: 255 x 172 mm Script: Protogothic Script: Scribe: Didacus? Decoration: Approximately fifteen large decorated initials, four to ten lines in height, in combinations of red, yellow, and blue; smaller red decorated initials throughout; first words after a large initial often covered with a yellow wash; rubrication in red Provenance: Abbey of Santa María de Benevívere (Spain, twelfth century; ex libris of the monastery: "hec est liber s[an]c[t]e marie de beneuiuere qui abstulerit anathema sit, Amen, am[en] amen," fol. 180v); Brother Hugo (prayer written in fifteenth-century hand and signed, last leaf verso); William Bragge (sold 1876); Gerald E. Hart, Montreal (sold 1890); George Dunn of Woolley Hall (sold...
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