![]() ![]() ![]() 378v, damaged by insects and wear, and mostly illegible. 102, 105, 116, 116v, 117, etc.), good quality parchment and paper, with the exception of f. 1, red rubrics (for which instructions to the rubricator have been written at the bottom of the page, often trimmed), occasional slashing of majuscules in red (e.g. 103, 148, etc.), six-line decorated initial “S” in red with elaborate purple penwork stretching down on the length of the inner margin of f. 135-344 ) scripts (script throughout is clear and upright and influenced by humanist scripts), two- and three-line initials in alternating red and blue but occasionally not filled in or filled in by a later reader in black outline (ff. 378 folios on paper and parchment (parchment used for the outer and center bifolia of each quire, and paper for all other bifolia), plus two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end, the first and last of these marbled, watermarks, (sometimes visible in the center of the inner margin) tassled cardinal’s hat, similar to Briquet 3373, Florence, 1474/83, Florence, 1476, Fabriano, 1475, Naples, 1468-71, sixteenth-century foliation in ink, top outer recto (collation i-vi 20, vii 14, viii 24, ix-xix 20), quires signed in the bottom outer margin with Arabic numerals for each bifolium and letters for the quire (in three series, a-i, i.a-i.g, and ii.a-ii.c, frequently trimmed), catchwords in bottom outer margin of most quires (catchwords lacking in quires xvi and xviii, where the last page in the quire is blank, and also from quire ix), ruled in ink (no visible pricking) in one column of thirty-eight lines, with full-length vertical bounding lines (justification 155-160 × 93 mm.), written above the top line by multiple scribes, in formal gothic cursiva (ff.
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