(Q21057)
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Thomas F. Richardson
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Missing leaves
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Extent: i+192+i; 282 x 195 mm bound to 288 x 206 mm; parchment
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Leaves missing before fol. 1 and between fols. 65 and 66; marginal notes and manicules in later hands
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Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards with stamped decoration including fleurs-de-lys, birds, rosettes, and wyverns; evidence of clasps; brown cloth case
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Layout: Single column of twenty-eight lines; musical notation on four-line staves; ruled in ink; pricking visible; written area: 185 x 134 mm
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Script: Littera bononiensis
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Decoration: One hundred and three very fine ornamental initials in gold and colors, with bright blue predominating; other initials in red and blue with some penwork decoration; rubrication, underlining, and stave lines 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. 2031, no. 36.
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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. 185, no. 171.
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Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; 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: Oliver Mitchell
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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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