(Q20754)
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Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
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Illuminator, Master of the Vitae Imperatorum, active 1402-1459
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Richardson, Thomas
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: iii+78+i; 217 x 148 mm bound to 227 x 158 mm; parchment
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Binding: Original brown calf over wooden boards; stamped with arabesques and emblems of the Paschal lamb; back repaired
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Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of twenty-nine lines; written area: 126 x 75 mm
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Script: Humanistic
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Script: Scribe: Milano Borro
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Decoration: One eight-line decorated initial with full inhabited border; two large illuminated initials; red and blue three-line initials throughout; some marginalia
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Provenance: Written for Giovanni-Maria Viscount of Sforza, Duke of Milan ?; Trivulzio-Belgioioso-Trotti Collection, Milan, sold (1885) to Hoepli; sale by Leavitt, New York, (1888); Thomas Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (obtained 1919); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes written in pencil by Lewis on inside of front...
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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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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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