(Q20778)
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Chart of Consanguinity; Schwabenspiegel Landrecht (Common Law of the Swabians)
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Wright, Harrison
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1385-1399
14. century
1385Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: i+184+i; 310 x 214 mm bound to 317 x 220 mm; paper
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Becker identifies the script as bâtarde
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Binding: 19th century paper boards
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Layout: One column of twenty-two to twenty-eight lines; unlined; frame-ruled in light-brown ink; written area: 205 x 123 mm
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Script: Gothic--cursiva
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Decoration: Large initial in brown and red with penwork tracery (fol. 1r); red two- and three-line initials throughout; headings touched up 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. 2055, no. 163.
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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. 75, no. 69 (+ Supplement).
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Related resource: Hans-Jürgen Becker. "Eine unbekannte Handschrift des Schwaben- und Augsburger Sachsenspiegels." Zietschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteiling 88 (1971): 190-197
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Provenance: Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 238; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; 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: Dot Porter
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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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