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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![763 upper cover, arms of Henry VIII quartering Arragon on lower (Weale, pp. 127-8, Nos. 127-8) [Colophon]. . . Antwerpie per Christophorii Endouiensem impressum : impensis vero probi ac honesti mercatoris Godefridi de hagis [Antwerp, Chr. Endoviensis, 1528 | APPARENTLY UNRECORDED. The Short-Title Catalogue gives five other editions of the Sarum Hymnary with the above title (S.T.C. 16129, -16131-4), all of which are exceedingly rare. At the end are inserted two leaves (8vo0, gothic letter, printed in red and black, musical notation) containing a service, “Ad suscipiendum episcopum, archiepiscopum, regem vel reginam.”’ VELLUM, 190 leaves (244 mm. by 161 mm.), written in a bold roman hand, the commentary in similar but smaller characters, enitial V at the beginning of the text painted in gold and colours, a few other initials in red, folio 184 slightly defective and mended, upper fore-margin of first three leaves water-stained, vellum _ XII CENT. A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT IN FINE CONDITION. On the verso of the last leaf is the note, “‘ Iste liber 6 ad usum fratri mino 2, omoratiti i loco d’nemore.”’ VELLUM, 176 leaves (208 mm. by 140 mm.), WRITTEN BY AN ENGLISH SCRIBE in @ bold clear hand, the commentary in similar but smaller letters, the interlinear glosses slightly smaller than the marginal commentary, TWELVE ILLUMINATED INITIAL LETTERS (a P in each case except the Epistle to the Hebrews, which begins with an M), the body of the letter filled with interlacing fillets issuing from the mouth of a serpent or bird whose head forms the end of the loop of the P, the tail of the P seized by a fish, bird, snake, dog, or other animal or monster, other initials in red, a few leaves wanting (Philippians III, 8-end, Colossians, and I Thess. I-IV, 15), small holes in the first forty leaves, causing defects, mostly in the commentary, some of these leaves worn and somewhat water-stained, last leaf slightly wormed, blue morocco gilt, g. e. c. 1100 This interesting manuscript appears to have been written in the North of England. The initials, while preserving the original design, have been recoloured at a later date. FOLIO. . . . Most of them selected and approued remedyes, for all corporall diseases, and sicknesses, which out of manye highe, and common Persons written Physick-boockes, are compacted, and vnited together ... Faithfullye translated out of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3164711x_0145.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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