Binding: Not bound. Figurative details, One leaf: 10-line illuminated initial in colors and burnished gold, 18-line columnwidth miniature on recto, showing a bishop joining the hands of a man and a woman in marriage (the woman apparently reluctantly), each attended by witnesses of their own sex. Other decoration, One leaf: Heading in red, paragraph marks and running-titles in alternating red and blue; 2-line initials in alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork. Script, One leaf: Gothic Textura. Layout, One leaf: 2 columns, ruled in plummet, each column 311 mm. by 87 mm. with 16 mm. between columns.
Former Owner(s):
C. L. Ricketts, bought from Maggs, 1930 (according to a pencil note; de Ricci says 1932); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 649. One leaf: The leaf shows a style of script and illumination which is partly French, partly Italian. The lozenges in the backgrounds include multiple repetitions of the French fleur-de-lys. Gold is burnished to a mirror finish. The manuscript is probably southern French. Comparable texts of canon law were illuminated in Parisian style in Toulouse (cf. Avril 1998, p. 334, no. 233; L’Engle and... One leaf: Latin. One leaf: The margins are extensively glossed by a medieval reader, employing a repertoire of signes-de-renvoi to link the annotations to the text. Explicit, One leaf: De francia quidam. . . propositum gerens in mente.
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