(Q20790)
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Richardson, Thomas F.
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: 153+i; 565 x 392 mm bound to 606 x 415 mm; parchment
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Some flaking
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Marginal annotations in various near-contemporary and later hands
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Parchment repairs using fragments of earlier manuscripts
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Original text obscured by parchment pastedowns with later script
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Binding: Diced Russia over wooden boards; brass bosses and corner ornaments; remains of clasps
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Layout: One column of seven lines with four-line staves in red ink with musical notation; lead ruled; written area: 482 x 276 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: Thirteen historiated initials; forty-six illuminated initials; numerous decorated initials in red, blue, and black ink with pen-work decoration
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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. 2033, no. 48.
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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 Free Library, 1937), p. 79, no. 73.
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Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, his sale, 1919, no. 48; 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: 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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