Medical treatises written in England in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 244 (the last is 3 leaves pasted together). Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-312 410 5-1912 2012(12 drawn past quire 21 and originally used as pastedown; now pasted to the last 2 leaves of quire 21) 218(7, 8 and the last leaf of quire 20 now pasted together as f. 244). Catchwords in lower right margin, usually in ink or green frames. 18-25 long lines, frame ruled in lead; slash... Decoration: In quires 1-4, 2- and 1-line green initials filled in yellow with simple borders to the right of the text in the same colors; green paragraph marks filled in yellow; running headlines in green frames washed in yellow. From quire 5 to the end, 1-line red initials, red paragraph marks, running headlines enclosed in red frames washed in yellow, and, intermittently, also written in red... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/3/2012. Visible on the strip of the white leather binding which extends beyond the pink leather turn-in on the front cover, 16th c. inscription "Liber Ric. clere [?] rectoris sancti panc[...?] [...?] Edward Horden." On f. 1, "Sum Gulielmi Moore 1657" and on f. 244, "William Moore [?]." In modern pencil on the front pastedown "£ 300," underlined. Quaritch Cat. 699 (1952) n. 94; acquired from Quaritch...
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