Layout: 30 lines Script: Humanistic characters in red and brown ink. Headings and some marginal notes in red. Decoration: Large historiated initial depicting Saint Jerome at the beginning of the Prephatio. At the beginning of the text is a large initial A in green, blue, red, and gilt, ornamented with arabesques. Numerous smaller initials in red and blue. Binding: Rebound in blind-tooled brown leather, gilt edges, later endpapers, by F. and T. Aitken. Provenance: Early ownership inscription at tail of first leaf rubbed out. Huth copy, Catalog II (1880), p. 696; sale (London, 1913) II, No. 3671, to Leighton. Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from Lathrop C. Harper. Excerpts from the writings of Saint Jerome on such subjects as obedience, justice, chastity, and the virtue of humility and simplicity. Final three leaves contain verses in Italian by Bonagiunta Orbicciani of Lucca.
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