Binding: Seventeenth-century French brown calf with gilt pomegranate ornamentation in corners and on spine, edges of leaves mottled in red and brown; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA Layout: Two columns of forty-nine lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 148 x 95 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Seventy-two historiated initials in gold; several initials have been cut out (for example, fols. 222v, 236v, 363v, 393v, 441r, 455v, 457v, 486v); marginal extensions; penwork tracery in red and blue; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters; rubrication in red; very few manicules (fol. 474v) Provenance: Formerly held in the library of the Franciscan Friars Minor of Verdun (eighteenth-century inscription, "Ex Bibliotheca ff. Minimoru[m] Virdin," fol. 1r); No. 503 in an early English sale catalog; Charles Butler sale (London, 18 July 1921, no. 415) to Davis and Orioli; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Do you have more information to share with the Holding Institution about this manuscript or would you like to suggest a correction? Contact information is available for member institutions via our member directory.