Extent: ff. ii + 219 + i : parchment ; 155 x 220 mm
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Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Formal gothic script. Layout: Originally in gatherings of 8 leaves (except for quires 1 and 14) but 17 leaves have been removed. 21 long lines (most of the litany in two columns), ruling in pale red ink. Span folios: ff. 1-219v. Other Decoration: Some 4-line gold initials remain. Assigned Date: s. XVin. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/2/2009. Written in the southern Netherlands for a English patron, perhaps living in the east midlands or East Anglia and perhaps with a connection to the Dominican house at Dunstable, to judge by the calendar. Inscribed, s. XV, "Hugo" (f. i); s. XVI, "Thomas Amerton[?]" (f. i, surname smudged); s. XVI or XVII, "and Jesus / blesse mee / my granfathers [sic] / booke / Pe [or De?]" (f. i); apparently in...
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