Bible (DS4403) (Q20709)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 38, Lewis E 38)
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Bible (DS4403)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 38, Lewis E 38)

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    Extent: ii+ 532+iii; 228 x 165 mm bound to 240 x 185 mm; parchment
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    Binding: Seventeenth-century French brown calf with gilt pomegranate ornamentation in corners and on spine, edges of leaves mottled in red and brown; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA
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    Layout: Two columns of forty-nine lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 148 x 95 mm
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    Script: Gothic--rotunda
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    Decoration: Seventy-two historiated initials in gold; several initials have been cut out (for example, fols. 222v, 236v, 363v, 393v, 441r, 455v, 457v, 486v); marginal extensions; penwork tracery in red and blue; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters; rubrication in red; very few manicules (fol. 474v)
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    Provenance: Formerly held in the library of the Franciscan Friars Minor of Verdun (eighteenth-century inscription, "Ex Bibliotheca ff. Minimoru[m] Virdin," fol. 1r); No. 503 in an early English sale catalog; Charles Butler sale (London, 18 July 1921, no. 415) to Davis and Orioli; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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    Contributor: Diane Biunno
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    Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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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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