(Q20619)
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1300-1399
14. century
1300Gregorian
1399Gregorian
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Extent: 329+i; 257 x 179 mm bound to 260 x 180 mm; parchment
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Last nine folios are a later addition; "913" written in pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf; note of circa 1800 describing the manuscript in Italian on the recto of the back flyleaf; Sticker with the number "3249" written in ink in a nineteenth-century hand on the lower edge of the back cover
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The inscription in the margin of fol. 187r, which reads "S. Thom[as] Aquin[as]," was written in a later hand and marks the place in the liturgy that the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (March 7) should appear; Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican saint, and that along with the inclusion of the feasts of saints such as Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, help to establish that this book was used...
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Binding: Seventeenth-century black morocco with blind stamped decoration; One clasp and remains of another are still attached
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Layout: Part I: lead point ruling; square notation on four-line red staves; first page has been sewn onto a new piece of parchment so that the verso of the page is no longer visible; sewn repairs throughout the manuscript (from the eighteenth or nineteenth century?); written area: 180 x 125 mm; Part II: lead point ruling; square notation on five-line red staves; red initials throughout...
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Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: Illuminated initials with extenders throughout; red and blue flourished initials throughout
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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. 2032, no. 41.
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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. 9, no. 6.
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Provenance: Manuscript was in Italy circa 1800; 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: Dot Porter
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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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