(Q20991)

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Fragment of a lectionary
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Extent: i+24+i; 334x239 bound to 344x247; parchment
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The first quire in the fragment is numbered IIII, so it appears that three quires are missing from the beginning of the fragment
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Folio 24 contains unidentified text, is bound through the first column, and the text on the verso is written upside-down
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Binding: German marbled paper boards, circa 1800
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Layout: Two columns of forty-four lines; one half leaf of an unrelated manuscript bound in; prickings visible; written area: 227x165
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Script: Gothic
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Decoration: Initials in red and green with penwork foliate 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. 2029, no. 144.
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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. 158, no. 144.
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Provenance: Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 21; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 406; his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 266, to Bull; 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: 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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