Text is incomplete, ending in the middle of tract eight (of ten) Fol. 48v: An inscription in a Renaissance hand at the bottom of page gives the contents of the manuscript and explains that it ends in tract eight and is missing tracts nine and ten Binding: Seventeenth-century vellum binding; handwritten on spine, "S August. Sermones" Layout: Written area: 208 x 125 mm; One column of twenty-eight lines, lead point ruling Script: Caroline Minuscule Decoration: Seven decorated initials 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. 2045, no. 113. 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 Free Library, 1937), p. 24, no. 19. Provenance: P. Pithou (purchased at Troyes, 7 June 1613); Lepelletier de Rosanbo; Duchess de Berry (Paris, sale 1837); Library of the Dominicans of Paris; Guglielmo Libri sale (London, 1859); Sir Thomas Phillipps (his sale, 1898); Ouseley; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (1911); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplates of John Frederick...
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