6 leaves : 147 x 109 (80 x 53) mm. bound to 154 x 118 mmParchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; [1-6], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.Written in 12 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink, with double upper horizontal bounding line.Written in Gothic script, with versicles and responses in a slightly smaller Gothic script (f. 1r-1v).4 2-line initials on gold grounds infilled with vine tendrils, with vine extensions in margins (f. 2r, 3v, 4v, 6r); 8 1-line initials in gold on colored grounds with short tendril extensions (f. 1r, 1v, 6r); rubrication in red.Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 1rIlluminated initial, Initial L, f. 1rIlluminated initial, Initial E, f. 1rIlluminated initial, Initial I, f. 1vIlluminated initial, Initial D, f. 1vIlluminated initial, Initial F, f. 1vIlluminated initial, Initial I, f. 2rIlluminated initial, Initial I, f. 3vIlluminated initial, Initial I, f. 4vIlluminated initial, Initial D, f. 6rIlluminated initial, Initial E, f. 6r
Modern leather (Don Etherington, Summerfield, N.C.).
Written in western France, possibly Chartres or Poitiers, ca. 1390 (King Alfred's Notebook).
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