(Q21246)
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H.P. Kraus (Firm)
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1220-1230
13. century
1220Gregorian
1230Gregorian
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Extent: iii+90+ii; 330 x 228 mm bound to 340 x 232 mm; parchment
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Many of the lower edges of the pages have been repaired with newer parchment
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Three front flyleaves, two eighteenth-century paper followed by a parchment fragment from a thirteenth-century missal; two back flyleaves, eighteenth-century paper
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Binding: Early eighteenth-century mottled leather, gilt-stamped spine, labeled IN XI[I] PROPH. MINO[R]; loose hinges, leather deteriorating along spine
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Layout: Three columns of fifty-six lines, frame-ruled in lead, prickings visible in inner and lower margins; biblical text written in the center column in larger script on alternate lines; text begins above the line; written area: 204 x 140 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis
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Script: Larger script for biblical text, smaller text for gloss
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Decoration: Twelve historiated initials, two approximately twelve-line decorated initials (fol. 1r), one five-line decorated initial (fol. 60v); running titles in alternating red and blue letters; alternating red and blue flourished two-line initials throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph markers, some flourished, throughout; missal fragment (Flyleaf 3) has one five-line initial, one...
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Provenance: Alexander William or James Ludovic Lindsay, Earls of Crawford (1812-1830 and 1847-1913 respectively); engraved bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earls of Crawford, inside front cover; sold by H.P. Kraus to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1969
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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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