Ms. codex. Title from spine. Incipit: Alyance defencive: nous pr[- -ost] soucy Archdiacre [et] chappittre nobles baron et bas[c]htau[x] burghemrie... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... et puis ainsy [ad] ma[n]date Cic[saric] et catholi[qu]e ma[jes]te ppri[m- -] ha[mm]art (f. 269v). Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 269 + xi (modern paper); 1-269; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Layout: Written in 34 long lines; text block outlined in ink. Script: Written in a secretary script. Decoration: Rubricated initials, capitals, headings, and paragraph marks; manicule (f. 120r); a full-page coat of arms with a double headed eagle holding two shields (f. 258v); the first shield, in the middle of the eagle's chest, depicts a lion on top of a red and white checkered board, the second shield with a white stripe in the middle of a red shield is held sideways by the eagle's tail. Watermarks: Outer leaves depict a coat of arms with a horn and an inscription Holland; these outer leaves have no writing on them and are thinner than the leaves with text; leaves with writing have a crowned vase as a watermark. Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch); detached spine and upper cover; gilt spine with title Pawilhar. Origin: Written in Liège, after 1521. Formerly owned by Hermann Suchier (bookplate, inside upper cover).
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