(Q20850)
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1475-1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: i+160+i; 164 x 107 mm bound to 176 x 125 mm; parchment
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Calendar and fols. 146v-154r in French
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Binding: Twentieth-century brown calf with tooled panels; edges gilded
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Layout: One column of eighteen lines; frame ruled in faint red ink; written area: 92 x 55 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis semiquadrata
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Decoration: Sixteen large miniatures with foliate borders (underdrawing for Tree of Jesse miniature visible on fol. 23r); seventeen small seven-line miniatures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; foliate panel borders on versos; miniatures (except for Tree of Jesse) surrounded by three- or four-sided panel borders; headings, golden letters and important feasts in calendar in...
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Provenance: Sale by Sotheby's to Maggs (London, 6 May 1909, no. 24); Sessler (1911), sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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Contributor: Karen Kirsheman
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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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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