Four front flyleaves, first paper, second and third modern parchment, fourth medieval parchment; three end flyleaves, first and second modern parchment, last paper Binding: German red morocco with gilt-tooled borders and two gilt clasps, arms of the Elector of Bavaria (1770-80) on the upper and lower covers, stenciled edges, gilt title Biblia sacra B. Hieronymi, Ms. Sec. XIII, and initials B.P. (Bibliotheca Palatina) on the spine, 18th century; crest and motto (Nobilis Ira) of William Stuart of Aldenham Abbey added above the arms of the Elector of... Layout: Written in two columns of fifty-two lines; marginal notations in several hands; rubricator's instructions visible in some margins; written area: 280 x 170 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Approximately eighty historiated initials, mostly at book divisions; approximately ninety-five illuminated and/or painted initials, most six or seven lines in height, mostly at prologue divisions; historiated and illuminated initials through Ecclesiasticus (through fol. 249r) are by a French illuminator, those from Isaiah onward (from fol. 263v) are by an Italian illuminator, and... 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. 2062, no. 9 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. 44-45, no. 37. 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. 34-35, cat. no. 5. Provenance: Bibliotheca Palatina, Mannheim, Germany, circa 1770 (coat of arms, covers); Joseph Lilly (bookseller), London, before 1840; bought June 1840 by William Stewart of Aldenham Abbey, Hertfordshire, and Tempsford Hall (crest, front cover; bookplate from Tempsford Hall Library, Case C, Shelf ), died 1874; sale, Christie's, London, March 6, 1895, lot 144 (under name Stuart); Harold...
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