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Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Latin; Low German, Low Saxon
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Extent: i+264+i; 108 x 76 mm bound to 117 x 80 mm; parchment
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Front and back flyleaves: Fragments from an earlier, possibly 13th-century, manuscript on paper of Aristotle's Metaphysics (modern foliation 1 (Metaphysics Book 15, Chapters 22 and 24) and 262 (Book 7, Chapters 3 and 4))
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Small paper manuscript fragments perhaps used as bookmarks now between fols. 217-218 and 253-254 are from the same Aristotle manuscript as the flyleaves and not included in foliation
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Binding: Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century vellum over wooden boards stamped with woodcuts by William Harcourt Hooper; two clasps; bound for William Harcourt Hooper
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Layout: One column of fifteen lines; prickings visible on some leaves; written area: 70 x 48 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
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Decoration: Twenty miniatures in gold and colors with trilateral floral borders; seven decorative initials with similar borders; capitals, some more elaborate in gold and colors, others in plain gold or red and blue; rubrication in red
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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. 2043, no. 107.
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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. 192, no. 178 (+ Supplement).
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Provenance: Made for a woman named Katherine whose coat-of-arms is at the foot of the Cross in the miniature of the Descent (bend chequered azure and gules, fol. 183v) and whose name is in the prayer beginning on fol. 104v; William Harcourt Hooper sale, Sotheby's, London, July 15, 1912, no. 185; to Lewine; obtained from Voynich by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1916; given by his widow...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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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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