Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Anglicana. Layout: Collation for entire manuscript: 118 214 312(+13, f. 45, which was formerly the first leaf of the missing next quire) 412 512(-3, 7, and 10 through 12); the sequence of leaves in the last quire should be 58, 60, [missing leaf], 59, 61, 62. In Part 1: 16-18 long lines, ruled in plummet, which has usually turned brown. In Part 2: 16-20 long lines. Foliated i-ii, 1-62, iii-v. Part 1. Span folios: ff. 1-45v. Other Decoration: Rubrics, plain 2- and 1-line initials in red. Assigned Date: s. XIV2. Part 2. Span folios: ff. 46-62v, f. iv verso. The scribe occasionally omits words and leaves spaces, presumably because he could not read his exemplar (e.g. f. 58v "incessanter" and "incursio" omitted; f. 59v "iocunditas" omitted). Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009. Additions made for an owner named William (f. 59); inscribed, s. XV?, "Wyllyam M[...]" (f. ii, smudged). John Peterell(?), s. XV, inscribed: "Iste liber constat domino ihon' payterell [added in paler ink:] alliter(?) hartecu(m)be" (f. i). Inscribed, s. XVII(?) with a note that Thomas Becket succeeded Archbishop Theobald on the latter's death in 1162 (f. iv verso). Francis Powell (d. 1758...
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