Title supplied by cataloger. Jacobus de Voragine's Lenten sermons, the ghost story of Guido de Corvo and other unidentified sermons, written in England at the end of the fourteenth century; possibly of monastic origin. Span folios: ff. 1-184v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-148 158(+ a half leaf added between 7 and 8, f. 120) 16-228 238(8 was the pastedown). Catchwords written horizontally across the inner bounding line, often in a red-touched frame; quire and leaf signatures consist of letters and roman numerals. The first quire, lettered "a," is missing. Quires 5-8 use a double system, the quire being shown... Decoration: Initials, 2-line in blue with red penwork; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; red used for slashed initials within the text, underlining, and framing marginalia. Descenders of the bottom line usually extended with flourishes. Marginalia, as text-finders, in the hand of the scribe; manicules sometimes decorated in red (e.g. ff. 132v, 138). Marked "corrected" in the center... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012. On f. 184v, notes in an early sixteenth century hand: "Sciant presentes et futury quod ego Iohannes Wodedale" and "Willelmus Sponar possessor huius libri est. Si quis furetur cito per collum pendetur." On the back flyleaf: "feria 4ta xii d; feria 5ta vi d; feria sexta xvi d." A 16th cent. price "1 lib. 8 sol.," on f. i verso identified in the Sotheby catalogue (see below) as in the same hand...
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