Recto (?): ad iudicandum causas ... / ... id est amaritud ... [ID text] Verso (?): Biblical commentary, unidentified.
Notes:
Ms. fragment.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Formerly mounted to a vellum sheet with no. 37 in dealer's hand--probably the leaf's number in the dealer's portfolio, as on BPL pb. Med. 174. Same dealer's handwritten description on the vellum sheet reads "Flemish or Dutch: late xv century/ Initial "A," showing Aaron (with censer) and Moses before the Almighty; also, the plagues of locusts and of frogs. [Exodus, chaps. viii & x.]"
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Maggs.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 220
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 11-line initial [A] in blue with white filigree on gold, historiated with Aaron (at left, in Bishop's robes holding a censer) and Moses, plagues of frogs and locusts on the ground, both figures gazing at the face of God in the heavenly aperture above.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder. Formerly attached to vellum sheet 230 x 175 mm.