Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre, 1500 - 1525

Parchment support, (thick), ff. iv (modern paper) + 67 + iv (modern paper).

Dutch seventeenth-century gold-tooled vellum.

iv+67+iv; 322 x 220 mm bound to 330 x 235 mm.

Single column of thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled with single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines, ruled full across in ink; prickings extant; written area: 215 x 145 mm.

Gothic-textualis semi-quadrata script

Folio 1r decorated with a rectangular border along upper and inner margin of text, a gold ground framed in black with vines, scrolls, fruits, and flowers in shades of blue, yellow, red, green, pink, and white, the gold ground is dotted with black; also on f. 1r, one 6-line blue and white monochrome, scrolled initial in a gold rectangle framed in black. On f. 6v ten prayers are each introduced by ornate 2-line initials alternating between monochrome initials similar to the one on f. 1r, surrounded by fruit or flowers in red, blue, green, and white, and gold initials on blue ground embellished with white filigree penwork. Many other 1- and 2- line monochrome initials and line fillers throughout the book, some additionally decorated with colorful fruit, flowers, ornate penwork. A single pen and ink 2-line inhabited initial on f. 24v depicts a man's profile. The style of the monochrome initials, typical of Rouen, is similar to the Chew Psalter, Bryn Mawr MS 28.

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.