(Q21168)

Printed early-twentieth-century catalogue entry pasted onto inside front cover; page of notes in French in a nineteenth-century hand tipped onto recto of front flyleaf; written in pencil on this sheet, "Gift of Lydia T. Morris"; stamped on recto of front flyleaf, "Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, February 1926"; traces of notes written in ink on fol. 1r, now to faint to read, possibly in a...

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Binding: Eighteenth-century French calf, circa 1700, gilt stamped with the arms of Jean-Louis Girardin de Vauvré (a shield with three bird heads), on front and back cover; traces of gilding on edges

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Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 84 x 50 mm

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Script: Gothic--rotunda

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Script: Gothic--rotunda (with northern elements)

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Script: Scribe 1: fols. 2r-213r; scribe 2: fols. 213v-220r

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Decoration: Twenty-six border vignettes: keeping warm (fol. 2r), Aquarius (fol. 2v), feasting (fol. 3r), Pisces (fol. 3v), pruning (fol. 4r), Aries (fol. 4v), picking flowers (fol. 5r), Taurus (fol. 5v), Couple on horseback (fol. 6r), Gemini (fol. 6v), mowing (fol. 7r), Cancer (fol. 7v), reaping (fol. 8r), Leo (fol. 8v), threshing (fol. 9r), Virgo (fol. 9v), treading grapes (fol. 10r), Libra...

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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. 2013, no. 1.

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Provenance: In Spain, ca. 1600; Jean-Louis Girardin de Vauvré (1642-1724); sale by Sotheby (London, 12 December 1907, n. 170); Maggs Cat. 244 (1909), n. 296; given to the Free Library by Lydia T. Morris in 1926

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acknowledgements

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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date added

4 December 2023

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