(Q21120)

Leaf from a Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin, Compline) tipped in to back flyleaf; leaf from the same Book of Hours is tipped in to Lewis AL 025.8 B56 between folios 46-47

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A fragment, breaking off in the middle of the Life of Julius Ceasar; table of contents lists the other books of Suetonius's Lives, the last one beginning on fol. 131

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Hand that wrote the table of contents is different from that of the main text; same hand wrote the running titles that appear on each page; Greek inscription on folio 9v also in a different hand

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Binding: Bound in 19th-century half morocco with marbled paper covers; stamped in gold on spine, "Life of Caesar (Suetonius) Fragment XV. Cent. Ms."

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Layout: One column of thirty-two lines, frame-ruled in lead point; one illuminated initial (fol. 1r); running title on each page; written area: 165 x 95 mm

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Layout: A leaf from a Book of Hours tipped in to back flyleaf; one-line and two-line initials decorated in red, blue and gold, decorated borders, and line fillers; frame-ruled in ink; one column of twenty-three lines; page dimension: 113 x 102 mm; written area: 95 x 60 mm

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Script: Humanistic

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Script: Bâtarde

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Provenance: D. T. P.; Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 2665); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "DTP" written in pencil on fol. 2r; "Phillips MS 2665" written in ink on fol. 1r and "Italian hand Lives of the Caesars Suetonius" also written in ink in Phillipps's hand on fol. 1r

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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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