(Q21216)

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Missing leaves
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Extent: 86; 550 x 370 mm bound to 575 x 380 mm; parchment
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Front cover detached from spine
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Folios missing before fols. 1 and 81, and after fol. 86
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Marginal annotations in contemporary and later scripts
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Text flaking in places
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Erased nineteenth-century(?) inscription on fol. 25v
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Staves extended or added in later hands on fols. 28r and 84v
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Parchment extensively repaired throughout
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Remains of paper and parchment marker tabs
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Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps, some missing
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Layout: Single column of twenty-one lines; lead point ruling; five-line staves in red ink; written area: 415 x 245 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: One illuminated initial (fol. 65v); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration
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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. 452-53, no. 37.
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Provenance: Almost certainly made for the Jerónimos Monastery near Lisbon; 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 "Geo. S. Pepper Fund" and "3079," bottom of fol. 1r
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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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