(Q20646)
Statements
Wright, Harrison, Esq.
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Extent: i+67+i; 295 x 209 mm bound to 302 x 224 mm; paper
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Possibly part of a larger volume since manuscript begins with fol. 262
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Binding: Paper boards
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Script: Gothic
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Decoration: Initials, some with marginal extensions; 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. 2055, no. 165.
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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. 21, no. 16. [Also see Harrsen, Supplement]
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Related resource: Wurms, Friedrich, "Studien zu den deutschen und den lateinischen Prosafassungen des pseudo-aristotelischen "Secretum secretorum," Ph.D. Diss. Universität Hamburg, 1970.
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Provenance: Translated by Herr Melchior, Königshofen, for Sigmund von Lentershann; bought in 1870 by Harrison Wright, Esq., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 236; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; lot number for Wright's sale in the Schoenberg database is # 981
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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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