Folio 130 is a non-original parchment flyleaf Binding: Eighteenth-century brown calf with blind tooling and gilded spine decorations; green endpapers with arabesques stenciled in gold Layout: One column of seventeen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 101 x 71 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: Five large miniatures, vine spray borders and gold bars marking major textual divisions; four- or five-line illuminated initials at major textual divisions; one- and two-line illuminated initials and line fillers throughout Related resource: Claudin, Anatole, Bibliotheque scientifique, historique et litteraire de feu M. Michel Chasles, June 27 1881, lot. 14 Related resource: Hirsch, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), p. 29, no. 20. Provenance: Bookplate on inside front cover: "Ex Bibliotheca Michaelis Chasles Acad. Scientiar. Socii." on shield with stylized initials "MC"; his sale, 27 June 1881, lot 14, to Belin; Théophile Belin, Paris; purchased by Lehigh University (9 September 1881) from Belin
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