Extensive evidence of damage and repairs to parchment Some text erased and/or rewritten Additional musical notation on fol. 112v, in a later hand Marginal annotations in various later hands Two scribes: one hand executed bulk of manuscript; scribe two responsible for fols. 216v-220v Last gathering of four folios is paper attached by strips of parchment, some with musical notation (fols. 217-220) Binding: Italian; early seventeenth-century blind stamped red morocco over pasteboard; stamped in gold on the spine: "LIBRO CORALE DEL CANTO AMBROSIANO" Layout: One column of thirty-sixlines; square and lozenge-shaped musical notation on six five-line staves in red, black, and yellow ink (fols. 217-220: square musical notation on four-line red staves); hard point ruled; written area: 404 x 280 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: One large historiated initial with full foliate border; twenty historiated initials with foliate extensions; one marginal figure; four illuminated initials; two excised initials repaired with vellum patch; numerous decorated initials in red, blue, and black ink with pen-work decoration Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour de, 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. 2032, no. 44. Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), pp. 10-14, no. 10. Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 177-178, no. 61 Provenance: Monastery of Sant' Ambrogio Maggiore, Milan (sixteenth century; coat of arms on fol. 1r); Henry White, London (nineteenth century); Sotheby's sale (London, 21 April 1902) lot 47; Symes; Oliver Henry Perkins, Des Moines (his bookplate inside front cover); Anderson Galleries sale (New York, 23-24 March 1926) lot 537; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; gift of Anne Baker Lewis to the...
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