ROUSE MS 7. GUILLELMO DE MANDAGOTO, LIBELLUS ELECTIONUM (or Summa de electionibus, etc.).

Title: ROUSE MS 7. GUILLELMO DE MANDAGOTO, LIBELLUS ELECTIONUM (or Summa de electionibus, etc.).
Uniform title: Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse Collection of Manuscripts
Date Created: s. XIV in
Date: 1450/1499
Place of Origin: Northern France
Language: French
Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Summary: Written in northern France in the early fourteenth century. Dismembered, these sheets trimmed and reused as pastedowns; stains of leather foldovers on both, and two nail holes in folio 1. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 16920); bought with the last unsold items in his estate by the Robinson Trust; bought from the trust by H.P. Kraus, Inc., New York. Bought from Kraus in May 1987 by Richard and Mary Rouse. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Description: Bound in modern (s. XIX) paper over boards; printed Phillipps label on spine with number 16920. Modern handwriting on spine reads “MANDAGOTO de ELECTIO – NIBUS.”
Parchment, 2 half-leaves, trimmed horizontally, turned 90o, and bound together: folio 1: 155 x 153 (112 x 113) mm.; folio 2: 148 x 212 (158 x 124) mm. 2 columns (full column width survives in all cases), of perhaps 38/44 line originally (19/20 lines survive), ruled with lead point. Written by one scribe in hybrida libraria, in dark brown ink. Substantial fifteenth-century marginalia from before the sheets were trimmed, in two different hands