Meditations on the Psalms, in Flemish, written in Flanders in the second quarter of the sixteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-205v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 14(+1, the portrait) 22 3-228 238(-7, 8, after f. 173) 24-278. 15 long lines ruled in pale brownish-red ink. Written in a late hybrida script. Decoration: On f. 1, a portrait of excellent quality (French?), 62 x 54 mm., of a woman with delicate features, holding a flower, the usual indication of a wedding portrait; in the upper corner, "Etatis 32." Opening initial, f. 2, 5-line, in gold arabesques on a patterned blue ground, enclosed by a simple gold frame; 2-line initials in gold or white on rose, brown, green or blue grounds... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/2/2012. "Anno 1478" is written in a contemporary hand on the front flyleaf i verso and on the back flyleaf iii. The first owner was probably the woman whose portrait is on f. 1; on f. 1v, the initials of her name or of her motto. The book may have been a wedding gift. Purchased by Henry E. Huntington in September 1926 from R. Koehler of Portland, Oregon.
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