Physical description: On parchment. 354 + i leaves, 415 x 247 mm.
Contents: Decretals, surrounded by the Commentary of Bernard of Parma (-1263) written in 1290 by Thomas the Norman colophon, f.354.
Decoration: picture before each of the five books: Parisian style of late 13th century, except for book 1, erased and repainted in second half of 14th century. Initials: for books, blue or pink patterned in white, on blue, pink or decorated gold; 3-line in text and in apparatus, blue or pink on single colour grounds; red or blue on blue or red, 2-line in apparatus or outside written space of text; first column of each book has ornamental letters in red and blue with decorated penwork grotesques.
Binding: Late medieval, tawed leather on boards, with two clasps.
Provenance; 1370-1372: notes by a French owner on rear pastedown.
Provenance 1898-1898: lot 561 in William Morris (1834-1896) sale at Sotheby's, 7 December 1898. Sold to Quaritch for £67.
Provenance 1899-1899: Quaritch catalogue, July 1899, no. 12 (£420).
Provenance 1908-1908: Lent by Bruce Ingram to the Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition.
Provenance 1936-1936: Sotheby, 19 May 1936, lot 24.
Provenance 1937-1937: Quaritch catalogue 532, 1937, no. 241 (£350).
Provenance 1945-1945: no. 5 in Quaritch catalogue 629, 1945. Sold to Robert George Morton (1880-1973).
Provenance 1969-1969: Bookplate of Gift of Robert George Morton (1880-1973), to the University of Liverpool, 1969.
1983: N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
