(Q2603)
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Perhaps the Carmelite convent in Chester; Richard Legh, of East Hall, High Legh, Cheshire, 1613; Richard Maria Domville (c. 1600-1667) who gave it in 1665 to Sir Peter Leycester (1614-1678), of Nether Tabley, Cheshire, and it apparently remained at Nether Tabley probably until the 1920s.
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broken up by Myers, bookseller of New Bond Street, London; leaves bought in 1930 by C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XIV(med); 1340-1360
14. century
1340Gregorian
1360Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, 11 leaves, non-consecutive: Two 3-line illuminated initials for prologues, one enclosing an animal; three 4-line historiated initials showing Baruch writing, with full bar border surrounding the page and between the columns (fol. 261r), Daniel in the lions’ den (fol. 339r), and God appearing to Amos as a shepherd (fol. 380v).
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Other decoration, 11 leaves, non-consecutive: Headings in red; chapter numbers and running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals; some 2-line chapter initials in burnished gold on blue and pink panels with white tracery and branching marginal sprays terminating in coloured petals.
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Script, 11 leaves, non-consecutive: Gothic Textura.
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Layout, 11 leaves, non-consecutive: 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 22 lines, each column 311 mm. by 93 mm. with 17 mm. between columns; written in brown ink.
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Manuscript note: Leaves from the manuscript are easily recognisable by their eighteenth-century folio numbers in pale red ink. Nearly 170 leaves are now known, scattered among collections in four continents). A substantial group of text leaves is now bound up as Oxford, Bodleian, MS Lat. bib. b. 4. The volume once had 413 numbered leaves but it was obviously already defective before it was...
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11 leaves, non-consecutive: Eighteenth-century folio numbers (followed here) in pale red ink.
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11 leaves, non-consecutive: Latin.
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ff. 11 leaves, non-consecutive: The leaves now in the Lilly Library, cited by the eighteenth-century foliation, are: fol. 55, Wisdom 12: 7-25; fol. 65, Ecclesiasticus 1: 3-35; fol. 165, Isaiah 49: 1-22; fol. 233, Jeremiah 38: 1-17; fol. 261, Lamentations 5: 13-22, prologue to Baruch (Stegmüller no. 491) and Baruch 1: 1-12; fol. 263, Baruch 2: 11-32; fol. 286, Ezekiel 16: 5-25; fol. 293...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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