Binding: Original brown calf covers over wooden boards; blind stamped including emblems of the Virgin and Child on a crescent, the Pascal Lamb, and Saint Matthew; bound at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mathias at Trèves (de Ricci); rebacked Layout: Twenty-one long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 112 x 68 mm Script: Hybrida Decoration: Twelve full-page miniatures with architectural borders; eighteen smaller miniatures; illuminated initials (one-line and two-line) and line fillers throughout Provenance: Coat of arms of the family de Farges d'Espeisse of Auvergne, originally from Lyon (argent a chevron azure charged with five estoiles or surmounted by a crescent argent; fol. 21v); second coat of arms of the former on the dexter side dimidiated with Legoué, of Mayenne on the sinister (argent a bend gules charged with three unicorn heads or; also fol. 21v); Laurent Campagne (16th...
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