Codicological and Paleographical Information:

Material: Vellum

Date of Production: 1430-40.

Provenance: France (Rouen)

Languages: Latin and French

Pagination: i + 108 + i (Sothebys)

Quiring:  14 quires of 8 leaves except vii8+1 (f.51 singleton), ix2, and x8+1 (f.66 singleton) (Sothebys).

Script: Textualis prescissa 

Text Inks: Black and Red.

Hands: Possibly two main scribes for the main text. The Calendar contains an annotation by a 16th century hand (Sothebys).

Number of Illuminations: Four large and two full-page miniatures with full borders, several large illuminated initials with three-sided borders, in two places with full borders, small illuminated initials and line fillers.

Additional Details: Foliation skips single leaves after ff. 14 and 29. The outer margin of f.15 was replaced. The extreme upper corners of ff.77-79, 85-93 have been cut. The full borders have been slightly cropped (Sothebys).

Binding: 19th century blind-stamped brown leather binding, spine repaired, metal fittings, gilt edges (Sothebys).

Dimensions:

Pages: 16 x 12 cm

Text Boxes : 9.75 x 6.5 cm

Margins :

• Top : 1.9 x 12 cm
• Right : 3.25 x 16 cm
• Bottom: 4.5 x 12 cm
• Left: 2.0 x 16 cm

Miniatures : 9.5 x 7.0 cm

Miniatures’ Text Boxes : 2.0 x 6.9 cm

Initials in Offices : 2.0 x 3.25 cm

Initials in Verses : 0.6 x 0.8 cm

Initials in Gospels : 2.0 x 0.75 cm

Number of Lines and Columns

Lines per Page: 16

Size of lines: 0.98 x 0.62 cm

Lines in Miniature Text Boxes: 3

Number of Text Columns: 1

Columns in the Calendar: 6