(Q21219)
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Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
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1540-1560
16. century
1540Gregorian
1560Gregorian
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Extent: 117+i; 499 x 350 mm bound to 518 x 366 mm; parchment
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Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234 are all associated with the College of Saint Jerome, Belém, and were purchased from Hiersemann of Leipzig in 1900
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Text annotated and corrected by later hands, in red and black ink
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Remains of paper tabs throughout, some clearly cut from printed books, some with eighteenth-century(?) script
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Occasional erasures throughout
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Some text and musical notation flaking
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Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps
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Layout: Single column of twenty lines; five-line staves in red ink with musical notation; hard ruled; written area: 400 x 274 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: Three illuminated initials (fols. 1r, 34r, 77r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration; three unfinished initials (fols. 115r, 116r, 117r)
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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. 453, no. 38.
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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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