Several initials have been excised Edges of the book have been trimmed; right edge of fol. 1r trimmed approx. 18 mm from text block Binding: Nineteenth-century Italian goatskin binding with gold-stamped and lettered spine, inscribed: "BIBLIA SAEC. XIII" Layout: Two columns of fifty-four lines, ruled in lead; written area: 120 x 78 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Script: Libraria, littera bononiensis Decoration: Thirty-six historiated initials, seventeen decorated initials, flourished initials throughout, running titles in alternating red and blue ink 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. 2026, no. 8. 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), p. 43, no. 36. Related resource: Angela Daneu Lattanzi, "I Manoscritti e incunaboli miniati italiani della Biblioteca Bodleiana di Oxford nel catalogue di O. Pächt e J.J.G. Alexander" Bolletino d'Arte (1972), p. 47. 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. 31-33, no. 4. Related resource: New York, New York Public Library, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, edited by Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (New York: New York Public Library and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005), p. 71 n.12. Provenance: William Morris of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, England; sale, Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1898, lot 34; J. J. Leighton Co., London, 1920, cat. II (1921), no. 433; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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