(Q21126)
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Expositio in civitatem dei S. Augustini (Commentary on St. Augustine's City of god)
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Waleys, Thomas, approximately 1287-1350?
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Frater Salvator Orlandini de Lanciolina
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: i+122; 304 x 217 mm bound to 315 x 226 mm; parchment
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Some marginal glosses relating to subjects of adjacent passages, in an early hand
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Binding: French eighteenth-century red morocco, gilt back and edges, in slipcase
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Layout: Two columns of forty-three lines, ruled in plummet; running book numbers in red ink, center of upper margin; written area: 223 x 152 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: One large initial on the first page in gold and colors of a Florentine type in the manner of Antonio de Chierico, with foliate decoration and extensions containing gold dots, a coat-of-arms in the lower margin supported by two putti with the partially erased monogram IG in the center of the arms; twenty-two smaller initials in gold on grounds of red, green and blue; capitals and...
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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. 2049, no. 133.
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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. 216, no. 197.
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Provenance: Bought in Florence, Aug. 8, 1486, by a Franciscan monk, Frater Salvator Orlandini de Lanciolina, according to ownership inscription on fol. 122r ("Iste liber expositionis super librum Augustini De civitate dei est as usum fratris Salvatoris Orlandini de Lanciolina ordinis minoribus quem emit Florentie optimo partio anno 1486 die 8 augusti"); R. Dugate (?) circa 1880; Bull and...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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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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