(Q21207)

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Missing leaves
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Extent: i+190+i; 508 x 351 mm bound to 540 x 367 mm; parchment
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Bottom half of fol. 184 excised
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Fragmentary remains of parchment tabs sewn into outer edges of fols. 37 and 121
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Additional musical notation added by later hands to fols. 106v, 169v, 186r, and inside back cover
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Evidence of early damage and repairs to parchment
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Some text and musical notation flaked
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Folios excised between fols. 120-121, 122-123, and 188-189
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Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps; edges stained red
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Layout: Single column of six lines with five-line staves in red ink; hard-ruled; written area: 397 x 235 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: One illuminated initial (fol. 1r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration, some with marginal flourishes and birds or dragons
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Related resource: J. Thomson, Hither and Thither (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 135-144.
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Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C.U. Faye, continued and edited by W.H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 452, no. 31.
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Provenance: Probably gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 212-234, see colophons in first two volumes); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900; catalog entry and typed description pasted onto the inside front cover; bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia pasted on to inside front cover; Stamped...
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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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