Armorial bookplate and printed catalog entry pasted onto inside of front cover Entry from Henry Young and Sons' Catalogue of Books pasted inside back cover Binding: Nineteenth-century (circa 1814-1830) black morocco, gilt with clasps and blind tooling with purple watered-silk paste-downs, by R. Simier with his ticket on front endpaper: "Simier Relieure du Roi, Rue St. Honore No. 152, à Paris"; stamped on spine in gold: "BIBLIA LATINA MANV-SCRIP TA" Layout: Two columns of fifty-five lines; hard point ruling; written area: 107 x 72 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Sixteen historiated initials; decorated and pen-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. 10. 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. 47, no. 39. Related resource: de Hamel, Christopher. The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon Press, 2001), p. 119. Provenance: Alphonse Labitte (1853-?); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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