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Extent: i+198+ii; 127 x 95 mm bound to 132 x 102 mm; parchment
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Fourteenth-century cursive inscriptions in Flemish in the lower margins on fols. 11v, 29v, 62r, 62v, 64v, 79v, 100v, 104r and 149r
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Quires from fols. 97r-109v are loose, and fols. 110r-115v are partially detached
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Folio 1v: modern forgery, Beatus initial with David playing the harp and David and Goliath; NY: PML MS M. 97, (folio 24v) the 13th century Psalter-Hours on which this forgery was based, was in the collections of William Morris (1834-1896) and Richard Bennett (1844-1900) in the nineteenth century; it was given to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1924; see http://corsair.morganlibrary.org
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Paper flyleaves
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Binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco, gilt tooled and blind-stamped; gilt edges
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Layout: One column of seventeen lines; lead point ruling; written area: 75 x 55 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis
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Decoration: One full-page initial (a modern forgery, Beatus initial with David playing the harp and David and Goliath, fol. 1v); five eleven-line historiated and inhabited initials, fol. 25v (Psalm 26), fol. 43v (Psalm 38), fol. 60r (Psalm 51), fol. 61r (Psalm 52), and fol. 76v (Psalm 68); four-line historiated and inhabited initials with busts throughout; three-quarter borders with zoomorphic...
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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. 2028, no. 20.
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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 Library, 1937), p. 195-196, no. 181.
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Provenance: "Johan C. Jackson 1853" written above the text on folio 2; "Sir Alexander Campbell 1883-4" on verso of front flyleaf; E. H. Van Ingen; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, November 25, 1897, lot 117, illus.; 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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