(Q20871)

Leaves missing between fols. 16 and 17, 17 and 18, 25 and 26, 26 and 27, 28 and 29, 57 and 58, 58 and 59, 60 and 61, 67 and 68, 70 and 71, and 100 and 101 (probably those containing miniatures)

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Binding: Mid-nineteenth-century English Russia leather, blind tooled, gilt edges; stamped in gold on spine: Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Latin Ms, and Flemish XV Century

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Layout: One column of seventeen lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines; written area: 63 x 40 mm

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Script: Gothic--rotunda

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Decoration: Floral and inhabited borders; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers 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. 2043, no. 104.

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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. 112-113, no. 103.

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Provenance: Robert Hoe (sold 1912); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; book plates of Robert Hoe (on inside front cover) and John Frederick Lewis (on recto of front fly leaf); unidentified armorial book plate with six lions on inside front cover; note written in pencil on recto of back fly leaf, "Sale no. 2088...

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acknowledgements

Contributor: Karin Suni

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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins

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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources

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date added

4 December 2023

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