May be from the same scriptorium as Lewis E 47 and 188; all three are on laid paper with the watermark of a bull's head surmounted by a rose; scripts are similar and decorated initials are identical in style; all are ruled in brown ink for columns, but not for lines The remains of an insect are present in the right outer margin of fol. 113. Binding: Nineteenth-century German black calf with blind-tooled lattice pattern and stamps of lyres; pink paper pastedowns and endpapers; blind stamps of a crown along the spine; stamped in gold on spine: "EPISTOLAE PAULI CUM GLOSSA [LY]RA." Layout: Frame-ruled in ink in two columns of 42-45 lines, catena format with scriptural excerpts underlined in red; running headings in red, upper center margin; written area: 240 x 155 mm Script: Hybrida Decoration: One large pen-flourished initial; smaller initials in red; manicules in red 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. 2048, no. 130. 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. 50, no. 43. Provenance: Brother Joachim Guerrinus de Montefegatesio, O.S.F., Winsted, Conn. Feb. 1873, (former librarian of Saint Bonaventura College, Saint Bonaventure, N.Y.), Rev. John Wright; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Inscription of the verso of the last leaf: "Ad usum Fratris Joachim Guerrini de Montfegatesio...
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