Extent: 349 leaves : paper and parchment ; 420 x 275 (320 x 190) mm bound to 425 x 285 mm
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Ms. codex. Title and attribution from preface (f. 2r). Foliation: Paper and parchment, i + 349 + i; [1-266, 268-350]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Layout: Written in 2 columns of about 66 lines. Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script. Decoration: Large initial Q (f. 2r), decorated in blue, green, and red inks with burnished gold; leaf and vine motifs curl around the page, with a shield at the bottom center, also colored in red, blue, and green with dots of gold and silver; 2-line initials of each glossary entry alternate between blue and red; rubricated throughout. Watermarks: Hand-like figure (f. 3-312); horn hanging from string (f. 312-350); Briquet, Deux Clefs 3864 (Gex, 1415) (f. 1). Binding: Repaired tooled calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch). Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Incipit: Quoniam inter cetera dampna que suis posteris intulit prothoplaustorum transgressio non minimum fuit oblivio... (f. 2r). Explicit: In cuius amplitudine, non in graduum sublimitate, queritur regnum dei extra de tempo. or. ad aures (f. 350v). Part of deed of Johannes Zomernaet to the Carthusian monastery, Marie Castri (Marienburg(?), which according to Cottineau II, 1751 was an Augustinian monastery), 1493 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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