(Q20814)
Statements
Robert, of Sorbonne, 1201-1274
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Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
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(Pseudo-) Bernard of Clairvaux
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Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263
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Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Leighton, George F.
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1300-1350
14. century
1300Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: iii+172+iii; 223 x 154 mm bound to 229 x 167 mm; parchment
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First flyleaf is loose from binding; darker discoloration on 18v; script is faded on several leaves, including 59v-60r; 65v-66r, 68r, 73v, and 89v; some wear to outer edge of binding.
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Binding: Nineteenth-century, green levant morocco, blind tooled to an Aldine design on the sides and back, gilt edges, by Pierre Marcellin Lortic; "LIBER MISERÆ CONDITIONIS HUMANE. MS CIRCA XIVme" stamped in gold on spine
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Layout: Written area 151 x 103 mm, pricking visible; two columns of thirty-six lines, lead point ruling; fourteen full foliate borders with decorated initials; numerous small decorated initials throughout; paragraph markers alternate blue with red flourishing and gold with blue flourishing; capital letters are highlighted in yellow; guide letters for the rubrics and foliation visible...
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Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
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Decoration: No illustrations; fourteen folios have full foliate borders with decorated initials in gold, ink, and paint (ff. 1r, 4r, 32v (showing arms of Malmesbury Abbey?), 55v, 57r, 59v, 66v, 73r, 75v, 78r, 85v, 104r, 118r, 134r).
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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. 2047, no. 123.
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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), pp. 92-93, no. 84.
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Related resource: Rosenbach Museum and Library, Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and Near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and their Influence, exhibition catalogue. (Knoxville, TN: New Chaucer Society, 1986), pp. 69-72, no. 40.
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Provenance: Malmesbury Abbey; Collection of George F. Leighton, Saint Louis, sold 1929; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; fol. 32 contains arms of the Abbey of Malmesbury in the border (gues two leopards argent, a chief argent, over all an episopal crozier in pale; bookplate for George L. Leighton, Saint...
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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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