(Q21294)

Binding: Contemporary monastic binding of white leather (torn in places) over boards with one leather clasp; evidence of worn tooling patterns or ink-dyed finishing partially visible on back cover; partially legible inscription written vertically on lower half of upper cover: Lib... de Vr.....

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Layout: One column of thirty-two to thirty-seven lines; frame-ruled in hard point with double horizontal bounding lines (fols. 1-103) and double vertical and horizontal bounding lines (fols. 104-143); prickings visible; text starts above top line throughout; written area: 185 x 100 mm (fols. 1-103), 182 x 100 (fols. 104-143)

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Script: Protogothic

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Script: Written by at least three hands: scribe 1 is responsible for fols. 1r-10v, 13r-102v; scribe 2 for fols. 11r-12v; scribe 3 for fols. 104r-143r (more rounded, possibly English and slightly later)

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Decoration: One nine-line initial in green and red (fol. 1r) and numerous one- to four-line initials in red in the first part of the manuscript (fols. 1r-102v); four four- to ten-line initials in green and red (fols. 104r, 114r, 119r, 135v) and numerous three- or four-line initials in red, green, red and green, or blue in the second part of the manuscript (fols. 104r-143r); rubrication in red...

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Provenance: Cope family at Bramshill Park, Hampshire; Sir Anthony Cope sale, Sotheby's, London, March 4 1913, lot 42; sold to Leighton (dealer); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; gift of Anne Baker Lewis to the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1936

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acknowledgements

Contributor: Diane Biunno

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Cataloger: Judith Weston

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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins

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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources

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date added

4 December 2023