Extent: 228 leaves : paper ; 191 x 142 (140 x 91) mm bound to 199 x 155 mm
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Title from annotation front flyleaf verso, 18th century? Manuscript codex. Collation: Paper, fol. iii + 228 (foliated 1-228 in modern pencil) + ii ; [a]12(-1; 2 is partially mutilated with loss of text to outer column and mounted on modern paper) b-e12 f12(-11,12 with loss of text) g16(-3,4; 1991 rebinding and conservation split this into two quires: 16 28) h-k12 l12(-1,11,12 with loss of text) m12(-12) n16(-1,2,3) o12 p12(-9,10,11,12 without loss of text) q12... Layout: Written in 2 columns of 31 to 36 lines; ruled in lead. Script: Gothic semitextualis libraria, heavily abbreviated, on fol. 1-225r; fol. 226v-228r in larger cursiva currens, added by a later scribe. Decoration: Red initials (2- to 4-line) with guide letters. Binding: Manuscript waste sewn between fol. 144 and 145. Bound in 20th-century tan cloth over boards; paper spine label with title: "Homily and other minor works"; binder's signature: "Sky Meadow, 9-1991." Late 19th- or early 20th-century binding preserved in collection file available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library: half dark brown leather with... Origin: Possibly from a Franciscan monastic house in Pisa, due to Franciscan hymns copied at end of book in a later hand. De Ricci suggests Germany. Watermarks indicate a Northern Italian origin for the paper and a mid- to late-14th century date of manufacture. Possible date give in top outer corner of fol. 227r in second scribe's hand: "1396." Notes in a later humanistic hand on fol. 119v, 123v, 208r, and 218v. Manicule on fol. 166r. Title written in ink by a former owner, possibly in the 18th century, on the front flyleaf verso: "Homilie liber et alia opuscula." Written in pencil in late 19th- or early 20th-century hand on front flyleaf recto: "Homilie liber et alia opuscula, MSS of XV century, two columns." University of Chicago... Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, BV4240.H75. Current shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms155.
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