(Q21105)
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Dore, J. R. (John Read)
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: i+154+i; 305 x 207 mm bound to 310 x 225 mm; paper
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Water damage in upper corner of all leaves has obscured some of the text
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Second front endpaper is glued to the recto of the first leaf of the manuscript, completely covering it
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Binding: Eighteenth-century calf over spine; front joint cracked; leather of joints damaged at head of spine; old wooden boards; gilt title label on spine, Psalterium Davidis
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Layout: Psalms written in ten to thirteen lines of psalm text, with interlinear and marginal glosses; box-ruled in brown ink; prickings visible; written area: 150 x 225 mm
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Script: Gothic--cursiva
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Script: Hybrida
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Decoration: Colors other than red mostly seem to be later additions, including one small illustration of David with crown and harp (fol. 5v) and a large decorated B at the beginning of the Psalms (fol 6r); two-line red initials and initials stroked with red throughout; some marginal lemmata stroked with 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. 2028, no. 24.
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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. 207, no. 188.
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Provenance: John Read Dore (1831-1895) of Huddersfield, author of Old Bibles: an account of the early versions of the English Bible, and a chemist; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes written in a nineteenth-century hand and pasted into the front cover and describing the manuscript's contents begin, "Mr...
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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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