Call Number:  

HM 19999

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Binding

Description:  

Quarter bound in 1903 by Douglas Cockerell in wooden boards with red morocco spine, gold and blind stamped with the initials of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall; two braided fore edge straps to catches on the front cover.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. iii verso

Description:  

Ownership and other notes.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 1

Description:  

Gregory IX receiving the book from a group of clerics; a seated doctor instructing students; a seated king.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

ff. 40v-41

Description:  

Catchword; quire signature; corrector's note in lower margin, "corr. in textu."

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

ff. 41v-42

Description:  

Historiated initials with human faces, and one dog looking up at a rabbit in another initial; marginal notes in an English hand.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 64

Description:  

A judge seated between a man and a woman, each with an advocate; in the margins, a rabbit and a bird.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 95

Description:  

Main scribe writing in a southern European style.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 121v

Description:  

Virgin and Child and Agnes with her lamb; miniature added during the first half of the 14th century by English artist.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 122, detail

Description:  

A priest celebrating mass as a layman is ejected from the part of the church reserved for the clergy; grotesques.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 173v, detail

Description:  

A bishop performing a marriage, with witnesses standing behind the man and the woman.

Call Number:  

HM 19999

Folio:  

f. 191, detail

Description:  

A seated pope listening to a monk who kneels before him, as others, holding books, stand behind.