![]() ![]() 92-98, guide letters for initials, guide notes for rubrics in margins, red rubrics, capitals touched in red, running headers (“liber” on versos and “primus” through “quartus” on rectos) in dark brown ink, one-line paraphs in blue, red, or black, one-line initials in blue or red, one- to two-line initials in blue or red with contrasting pen decorations, FOUR ILLUMINATED INITIALS of six to eleven lines, painted in pink on dark blue grounds and decorated with rounds of orange and burnished gold, with blue foliate infill on pink grounds and with red, green, and blue foliate extensions (ff. i-viii, ruled in brown ink with full-length horizontal and vertical bounding lines, prickings in upper, outer, and lower margins (justification 95-98 x 76-77 mm.), written in a handsome, compact gothic rotunda in two columns of thirty-one to thirty-two lines, additions in a more rapid gothic hand on ff. i, horizontal catchwords with brown and red pen decoration, center lower versos, qq. I (paper) + i (parchment) + 98 + i (parchment) + i (paper) folios on parchment, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer rectos, 1-98, complete (collation i-ii 10 iii 12 iv 10 v 12 vi-ix 10 x 4), quire and leaf signatures on q. ![]()
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