Physical Description
Description and Contents
Parchment, i modern parchment flyleaf + 275 fols. + i modern parchment flyleaf, 250 x 180 mm (163 x 105 mm), 24 long lines, ruled in brown ink (original campaign) or red ink (some 15th-century additions), offsets of some 25 devotional badges once attached to margins on fols. 226r-228r, 236v-252r, 262v-263v, leaves excised between fols. 69-70, 78-79, 105-106, 152-153, 243-244, 250-251, 252-253, 265-266. The main text is written in iron-gall ink and the rubrics in vermilion red. The Calendar text is written in gold and four colours: iron-gall ink, blue (likely ultramarine), orange-red (probably vermilion) and an organic dark red.
Calendar (August)
The first Calendar page for August has large pink and blue KL initials (for kalenda, the first day of the month in the Roman calendar). The elaborate treatment of the text, written in gold and four different colours, signals the princely patronage of this manuscript.