Extent: i+145+i; 626 x 435 mm bound to 650 x 470 mm; parchment
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Page 140 has added, pasted-in segment of music in different hand from the rest of the book Liquid damage to last few leaves Paper flyleaves Letter "C" offset visible on insider front cover Binding: Original fifteenth-century leather over wooden boards with five metal bosses each on front and back cover Layout: Five four-line staves ruled in red with square notation and text in black; frame-ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 450 x 295 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Three historiated initials, two lines (two staves plus their underlying text) in height (King David playing the psaltery before Jesus, p. 21; Martyrdom of Saint Agnes, p. 146; Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, p.257); numerous decorated initials one line (one staff plus its underlying text) in height, in orange, yellow, pink, and green with white dots on blue ground, some with acanthus... 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. 1991, no. 12. Related resource: Meiss, Millard, "An Illuminated Inferno and Trecento Painting in Pisa" The Art Bulletin 47, no. 1 (1965), p. 30 n. 53, fig. 35 (article pp. 21-34). 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. 31, no. 25. Related resource: Meiss, Millard, Francesco Traini (Washington, D.C.: Decatur House Press, 1983), p. 71, 78 n. 53, fig. 92. Provenance: Purchased by Lehigh University (9 September 1881) from Baillieu, Paris
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