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Cream colored, fine parchment; pastedowns and flyleaves are original parchment
Illumination attributed to Cristoforo Majorana (active ca. 1480-1494)
The scroll in the border reads: " ADORAMUS TE CHRISTE BENEDICIMUS"
Illumination attributed to Cristoforo Majorana (active ca. 1480-1494)
Fifteenth- or sixteenth-century blind tooled black leather binding over wood boards; tooling in the form of three borders, two with arabesque decoration and one with foliage; remains of a black velvet chemise cover visible on the interior of the top and bottom boards at the edges of the pastedowns; edges are full gilt with gauffered cable-work decoration; the silver gilt catches and hinges of now-missing clasps still preserved and in the form of dog-headed man grasping two dragons; the clasp plates are from an earlier book, possibly thirteenth-century German; likely re-bound since some catchwords towards the front of the manuscript seem to have been cut and some marginalia are partially missing