Title from printed catalog. Support: Paper. Script: Secretary. Layout: 16 2-710 88 96. Catchwords below the right corner of the text on the recto and verso of each leaf; quire signatures, a-g (on quire 7) in the inner margin, last leaf verso of each quire. 36-40 long lines, frame ruled in lead leaving a wide outer margin for notes; round prick marks at the 4 corners of the written space. Watermark(s): Pot similar to Briquet 12661, Alihermont 1537. Span folios: ff. 1-80v. Other Decoration: Good interlace and scrollwork initials in brown ink, occasionally with light yellow wash, approx. 35-60 mm. in height; some including grotesque heads or animals (e.g., ff. 13, 28v, 32v, 42), one initial in the shape of a dragon with an arrow piercing his body (f. 65) and one inscribed with the initials P.M. (f. 7v); some decorated top-line ascenders and bottom-line descenders... Assigned Date: s. XVImed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012. On f. 1, "Durum pati," the motto of Roger North, 2nd Lord North (1530/31-1600). In the North collection at Wroxton Abbey, Banbury. North sale, Sotheby's, 13 November 1922, lot 832 to Dobell. P. J. and A. E. Dobell Cat. 34 (Bruton and New Bond Streets, London, May 1924), lot 341 with plate of f. 65. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1924.
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