Extent: 51 leaves : parchment ; 409 x 265 (305 x 184)mm
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Ms. gatherings. Title from incipit for first work (f. 1r); alternate title from scrap of binding material pasted on the first page of the collection of leaves. Collation: Parchment, 51; 1-212 311(+11) 44 512; [1-51]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords present on lower right verso of quires 1-4, those in quire 3 apply to the additional page of the quire; quires missing between 2 and 3 and between 3 and 4. Layout: Written in 2 columns of 61 lines, ruled in lead. Script: Written in a rounded Gothic book script; annotations, list, and apocryphal text written in a Gothic cursive script. Decoration: Puzzle initial with J-chain in red and blue, 11-line (f. 1r), 13-line (f. 27r), 3-line (f. 38r); pen-flourished 2 line initials throughout, small sketches of faces in profile as well as various grotesques in the margins, including a dragon (f. 39r). Origin: Written in France (Avignon?), ca. 1350. Quires 1-3 sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1959. Quires 4-5 sold by Laurence Witten (Southport, Conn.), 1980.
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