Bible (DS4396) (Q20688)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 31, Lewis E 31)
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Bible (DS4396)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 31, Lewis E 31)

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    Extent: v+329+iv; 222 x 165 mm bound to 238 x 170 mm; parchment
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    Flyleaves paper, except for first flyleaf, which together with its conjoint pastedown is a fragment of a page from chapters 14 and 15 of Acts in a larger late fourteenth-century Bible; back pastedown is a fragment from the same manuscript, also Acts 14
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    Binding: Mid sixteenth-century English, cream-colored pigskin over boards, with two sets of clasps; gilt-tooled with center medallion surmounted by a stamp with the monogram of Christ (IHS) and framed by a double-lined border; gilt edges; pastedowns are fragments of a large-format New Testament (fourteenth century); pages have been trimmed
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    Layout: Written in two columns of sixty-two to- sixty-five lines (concordance written in three columns of sixty-one to-sixty-seven lines); frame-ruled in lead with double horizontal bounding lines and text beginning below the line; written area: 170 x 103 mm
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    Script: Gothic--textualis
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    Decoration: Elaborate red and blue flourished initials with penwork tracery extensions; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters; rubrication in red
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    Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2027, no. 11.
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    Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 39, no. 31.
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    Provenance: George W. Fitzwilliam of Milton Hall, Peterborough (sold 1918); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Ex Libris of George W. Fitzwilliam pasted onto verso of third flyleaf, reads: "Milton, Peterborough"; Printed catalog entries pasted onto the recto of the first paper flyleaf in the front and the recto...
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    Contributor: Diane Biunno
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    Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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    Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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    4 December 2023
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    4 December 2023
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