(Q20976)

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Historia hierosolymitana (History of Jerusalem)
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Extent: i+139+i; 213 x 152 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm; parchment
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Flyleaves are eighteenth-century parchment
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Flyleaves foliated as f. 1 and f. 141
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Binding: Eighteenth-century green vellum; gilt spine; spine label "HISTORIA IEROSOLIMITANA"; edges sprinkled with red; joints cracked, front joint almost completely broken
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Layout: One column of twenty-eight lines, ruled in hard point and lead with double vertical bounding lines; lacking first leaf of text (between extant fols. 5 and 6); written area: 122 x 75 mm
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Script: Humanistic
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Script: Scribe: Johannes de Camenago
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Decoration: Three-line initials in red with purple flourishes or blue with red flourishes at the beginning of each chapter; 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. 2059, no. 185.
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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. 151-152, no. 138.
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Related resource: Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Iter Italicum, Volume 5 (Brill, 1990), p. 366, ms. 138.
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Related resource: Zaggia, Massimo, "Copisti e committenti di codici a Milano nella prima meta del Quarttrocento," Libri & Documenti 21, no. 3 (1995), p. 30.
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Provenance: Count Archinto, of Milan (bookplate with "Archineata" on the scroll at the top, "Count Archinti" in pencil below, inside front cover); Thomas Phillipps, MS 24276 (number in ink, fol. 1r); 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: Amey Hutchins
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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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