This manuscript was rebound in the early nineteenth century by the bookbinder Charles Lewis (d. 1836); the coat-of-arms that decorate the cover belong to the first Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), one of the book's previous owners Front cover and front flyleaves are detached Quire (probably only one) is missing after quire 1 (skips from Genesis Chapter 26 to Chapter 32), contemporary quire signatures do not skip, which implies the quire was never bound in; leaf missing between fol. 13 and fol. 14 (skips from Genesis Chapter 37 to Chapter 39); fol. 31 contains Genesis Chapters 29-31; Quires 17 and 18 (Psalms) lack headings and the ink in quire 18 is lighter than that used in the rest of the manuscript Binding: Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco by Charles Lewis (d. 1836); with a gilt coat of arms of the Duke of Sutherland; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA LATINA M.S. Layout: Two columns of fifty lines, lead point ruling; written area: 171 x 116 mm Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata Decoration: Red and blue flourished initials throughout 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. 2027, no. 12. 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. 41-42, no. 34. Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower, First Duke of Sutherland; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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