(Q43629)
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Bible
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Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788
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between 1400 and 1450
15. century
1400Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 160 : parchment ; 145 x 201 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Script: Textura semi-quadrata.
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Layout: Loss of text in art. 1 suggests possible missing quire (of four leaves?) at the beginning of the volume. 18(-1 through 6) 2-208 216. Catchwords in the extreme inner corner of each verso; those at the end of a quire centered below the second column and often enclosed by red ink frames (e.g. ff. 2v, 10v, 18v); quire and leaf signatures presumably of letters and roman numerals scarcely...
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Span folios: ff. 1-160v.
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Other Decoration: Competent 6- or 5-line parted red and blue initials infilled with void leaf designs (e.g. ff. 1v, 23, 36v) and with red and violet flourishing on the initial and terminating the cascade borders which run the length of the text and occasionally across the upper margin (e.g. f. 74). 3-line blue initials with red flourishing at the prologues and chapters.
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Many notes in the margins, now erased, include: in one hand of the end of the fifteenth or early sixteenth century: f. 10, "thomas Movld"; f. 35v, "Thomas"; f. 99, "Thomas S [?]"; in the second hand possibly of the seventeenth century: f. 28v, "Thomas smith is"; f. 125v, "Thomas __?___ and __?___ owner of this booke for he __?___"; a later hand: f. lv, "__?___ Oxonbridge [?] page 4 __?___ this...
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Assigned Date: s. XV1.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
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Possible early owners were the Thomas Mould and the Thomas Smith who signed their names in the margins of the book. Armorial bookplate of Sir Ashton Lever on the front pastedown; probably to be identified with n. 286 in his sale, Sotheby's, 29 May 1786. Bought October 1920 by Quaritch; Quaritch Handlist, February 1923 n. 6 (?). Acquired by Henry E. Huntington from Sessler.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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