Opera (DS4543) (Q21129)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 198, Lewis E 198)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Opera (DS4543) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 198, Lewis E 198) |
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Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: i+194+i; 280 x 174 mm bound to 284 x 186; parchment
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Sixteenth-century notes in cursiva script, fol. 193r
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Letter from Wilfred Michael Voynich to Lewis concerning the gift of the manuscript in the Free Library of Philadelphia curatorial file
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Binding: Eighteenth-century limp vellum; "Virgilius" written in ink on spine
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Layout: One column of thirty-five lines, ruled in grey ink; written area: 201 x 105 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: One large historiated initial with inhabited border (fol. 2r), forty-six illuminated initials; red and blue paragraph markers; fols. 145v-146v were ruled but left blank
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2057, no. 172.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 217, no. 198.
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Provenance: Antonio Caboga of Ragusa (seventeenth or eighteenth century; on the first page of the text is the inscription "Ex libris Antonij Caboge Rhagusini" [Ragusa/Dubrovnik, in Dalmatia] and over the erased arms on the opposite page are added in ink what appear to be two fleur-de-lys on a bar, probably his arms); "14th cent Italy" written in pencil on the recto of the front flyleaf in...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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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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