(Q21042)
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Summa de virtutibus (Treatise on the virtues); Summa vitiorum (Treatise on the vices)
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Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: ii+317+ii; 184 x 134 mm bound to 195 x 140 mm; parchment
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Some leaves misbound, including two blanks and seven added leaves of indices
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Paper flyleaves, last flyleaf detached
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Binding: Nineteenth-century wooden boards and black morocco, gilt tooled floral borders on sides, gilt back, gilt edges, in cloth case
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Layout: One column of thirty-three to forty-one lines; prickings visible; written area: 156 x 108 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis
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Script: Written by multiple hands
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Decoration: Capitals, one-line to six-line, mostly two-line and in red, in some brief sections alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork; rubrication and paragraph marks in red
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Related resource: Rosenbach Museum and Library, Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and Near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and their Influence, exhibition catalogue. (Knoxville, TN: New Chaucer Society, 1986), pp. 67-69, no. 39.
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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. 180-81, no. 166.
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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. 2052, no. 146.
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Provenance: Purchased in Paris, 1397; Rome (according to illegible sixteenth-century note); at the abbey of Moyenmoutiers, 1717 (shelfmark X.1.46); Davis and Orioli, Cat. 19, June, 1917, no. 5; (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: 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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