(Q21210)
Statements
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
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Missing leaves
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1540-1560
16. century
1540Gregorian
1560Gregorian
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Extent: 140; 708 x 540 mm bound to 740 x 565 mm; parchment
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Fragments from liturgical manuscripts reused in eighteenth-century binding as pastedowns inside covers and string guards
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Parts of the original text and notation have been erased
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Some later annotations in pencil and ink
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Fol. 78 has been cut, almost in half
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Fol. 138 almost detached
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Fragmentary remains of paper tabs in outer margins
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Evidence of trimming
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Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses, and one clasp; edges stained red; sixteenth-century manuscript fragments used as pastedowns inside front and back covers and as string guards
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Layout: One column of six lines; five-line staves in red ink; lead point ruling; written area: 625 x 303 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: One illuminated initial, numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration
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Related resource: J. Thomson, Hither and Thither (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 135-144.
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Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 452, no. 33
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Provenance: Probably a gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 212-234, see colophons in first two volumes); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900; stamped "Geo. S. Pepper Fund 3082" on fol. 1r
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Oliver Mitchell
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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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