Layout: Varies from page to page, generally a central column of Biblical text flanked by two columns of commentary Script: Gothic characters in brown ink. The main text is larger, and the commentary and interlinear gloss is smaller. Red paragraph marks at the beginning of sections, and numbering for these sections in red in the margins. Decoration: Elaborate initial "P" (6 centimeters) in red and blue for the first word of the text, and the remaining letters of the word ("RIMUS"), also in red and blue, half the height of the initial. Decoration: Nine smaller initials in red. The large initial (f.1r) and the rest of the word are executed in a calligraphic style, possibly by the scribe himself. Binding: Modern brown morocco over thick boards. Paper fly-leaves and pastedowns. Catchwords preserved in the bottom right margins of final versos in all quires but VI. Collation: i (paper) + I^9 (1 as a singleton), II-XIII^8 + i (paper) Provenance: Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from L.C. Harper. Provenance: With George Dunn bookplate and label. Acquired by Dunn, June 1886. Dunn sale (London, 1913), I: 137. Prologues are: Stegmüller 637 ("Lucas antiochensis"); 640 ("Lucas natione syrus"); 635 ("de [loco] quidem in quo") Glossed book of Acts, some gloss (in a few thirteenth-century pearl scripts) seemingly added with use rather than at production. Very little glossing towards the end of the book. Very good example of parchment indicators including hair- v. flesh-side, non-rectangular shapes "Langtonian" (modern) chapter numberings added in margins after production.
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