Prayer against the plague; Prayer book (DS4521) (Q21063)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 175, Lewis E 175)
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Prayer against the plague; Prayer book (DS4521)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 175, Lewis E 175)

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    Prayer against the plague; Prayer book
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    Extent: i+121+iii; 76 x 52 mm bound to 78 x 58 mm; parchment
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    Portion of the prayers written backwards
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    Binding: 17th century blind tooled calf panels inlaid in the sides, brown morocco back, gilt edges, in brown morocco case
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    Layout: One column of fifteen lines; written area: 47 x 35 mm
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    Script: Gothic -textualis
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    Decoration: Thirty-one full page miniatures in gold and colors with borders containing human figures, beasts, mottoes, and flowers; three full-page borders; one historiated initial; nine decorated and illuminated initials with foliate borders; illuminated initials in text; one half-page tau cross; two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout; decorative pen flourishes...
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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. 2043, no. 175.
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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), pp. 187-89, no. 175 (+ Supplement).
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    Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
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    Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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    Contributor: Diane Biunno
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    Cataloger: Erin Connelly
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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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