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ff. 1-37v. [Peter the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum; begins and ends defectively; 4 leaves missing at one point and 6 at another]: Incipit: //Item Gregorius. Sicut viciosi lectoris est manifeste dicta exponere ... Explicit: Que ad litteram in hiis observanda sunt et que non, auctoritate scripturarum proferemus. Scriptum [catchword:] est enim lex domini//. Back flyleaf: [Homiliary; contains some material regarding the Ascension]: Incipit: //dabitur ei statim vel postea, nisi aliud iterim faciat unde mereatur id amittere ... Explicit: similes et pares fieri volebant// Peter the Chanter's Verbum abbreviatum written in England[?] in the first third of the thirteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-37v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1⁸(-1) 2⁸(-5 through 8) 3-4⁸ 5⁸(-1 through 6) 6⁸. Quires signed in roman numerals on the last leaf verso; catchwords in the script of the text in the corner of the inner margin. 39 long lines. Ruled in brown crayon, with double vertical bounding lines, and the first, middle and last 3 horizontal lines full across; pricking visible in the inner and outer margins. Written above the top line in an upright littera textualis. Decoration: Initials, usually 2-line, alternating in red and blue with plain tendrils and filigree, except on ff. 8-19 (what remains of quires 2 and 3), which are in plain red only, with no tendrils. Rubrics in a rather orange-tinged red. In the margins: notes to the rubricator, contemporary corrections to the text, and "exemplum" or "nota" marks in red, in black ink, or in crayon; three unidentified proverbs in the lower margin of f. 8: Cum bene pugnabis cum cuncta subacta putabis [Walther, Initia 57?]; Que primo infestat vincenda superbia restat; Hec nisi vincatur promissa corona negatur. Back flyleaf: leaf from an early 13th century parchment manuscript. 2 columns of 33 lines, ruled with a fine brown lead point. Written in a spiky minuscule bookhand above the top line. One initial, 2-line, in green. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/21/2012. Bound in late 19th century brown leather with an embossed overall pattern of oriental figures; remains of fore edge ties. HM 28177. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
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