Biblical commentary on the Pentateuch (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers) (DS4400) (Q20700)

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Biblical commentary on the Pentateuch (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers) (DS4400)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 35, Lewis E 35, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_035.html)
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      4 December 2023
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      Biblical commentary on the Pentateuch (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers)
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      Extent: v+206+v; 270 x 180-195 mm bound to 285 x 215 mm; parchment
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      Text is a fragment, very imperfect
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      Chapter numbers noted in some margins (per Debra Cashion)
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      Flyleaves are heavy nineteenth-century paper
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      Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; some marginal notes trimmed; stamped in gold on spine: "PENTATEUCH EXODUS LEVITICUS & NUMBERS, LATIN MS. XIII CENTURY"
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      Layout: Two columns of thirty-six lines, written mostly above the top line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible; written area: 205-215 x 140-160 mm
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      Script: Protogothic
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      Decoration: One three-line penwork initial in red (fol. 90r); lemmata underlined in red and initials touched with red throughout
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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. 2048, no. 127.
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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. 42, no. 35.
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      Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 24331 (inscription in ink, fol. 1r); C. Scoles sale (London, 10 July 1906, no. 447) to Dodwell; sold (London, 1903, no. 145) to Ellis; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalog entries pasted on the verso of the fifth flyleaf
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      8 June 2026
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