(Q20925)

Binding: Nineteenth-century, red morocco, gilt inner edges with clasp, LIBER PRECIS stamped in gold on spine; in red case with morocco-backed spine, gold-stamped HORAE B. M. VIRGINIS M.S. XV. SAEC.

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Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of thirteen lines (calendar, fols. 1-12, frame-ruled in one column of seventeen lines); written area: 68x50 mm

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Script: Humanistic

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Script: Gothic--textualis

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Decoration: Two historiated initials, three decorated initials, five foliate borders; one- and two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout

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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. 2041, no. 97.

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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. 135, no. 121.

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Provenance: Abbey of Passignano, Italy (late fifteenth century); bookplate of John Morgan, Rubislaw House, Aberdeen; sold London, Sotheby's (26 February 1900) to Tregaskis (cat. 463, 2 Apr. 1900, n. 388; cat. 468, 9 July 1900, n. 500); Maggs (after 1900); bookplate of John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

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acknowledgements

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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date added

4 December 2023

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date last updated

4 December 2023

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