Physical Description
Description and Contents
Parchment, iv modern parchment flyleaves + 309 fols. (foliated I-XIII, 1-296) + iv modern parchment flyleaves, 190 x 140 mm (125 x 95 mm), 18 long lines, ruled in plummet, quire and leaf signatures in quires 18-27, catchwords, fols. 292-296 added in the 14th century were previously bound at the beginning of the volume, two leaves missing after fol. 64, two more missing before fol. 227, one leaf missing before fol. 242 and another one after fol. 291.
The Calendar text is written in gold and blue, the main text in iron-gall ink and its rubrics in vermilion red.
St Nicholas’ charity (suffrage to St Nicholas)
This image illustrates the story of St Nicholas giving money to an ailing and impoverished father who feared that prostitution might be the only path left to his daughters. The monumental figures and the diapered blue and pink grounds characterise the work of Hand C.