Extent: ff. i + ii + 27 + ii + i : parchment ; 75 x 107 mm
Note:
Devotional texts written, according to a note in a cursive hand on f. i, in Brussels in 1539. Span folios: ff. 1-27v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 14 2-38 48(-8). Ruled space, 83 x 50 mm; 19 long lines, frame ruled in brown ink. Written in an italic script with rubrics usually in a humanistic script. Decoration: Three miniatures, ff. 3v, 19v, 20v. A 3-line initial on f. 5 and 2-line initials as gold branches on shaded square grounds of blue, green or red, or as white branches on a shaded gold ground; 1-line initials in painted gold on square colored grounds. Rubrics in pale red ink. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009. Written on f. i, the name "P. noels," and on the back flyleaf, f. iii verso, "F.N." On the front pastedown an armorial bookplate with the legend "Reverendus Admodum Dominus Johannes Franciscus Bosselaer Sancte Romane Ecclesie Protonotarius." An attached English book dealer's slip states that the manuscript was in the Renier Chalon collection.
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