Binding: Late twentieth-century vellum conservation binding; marbled paper end papers are bound into wrappers; formerly bound in nineteenth-century half Russia leather with pasteboard covers and marbled paper pastedowns Layout: Frame-ruled in lead, prickings extant; three columns of thirty-nine lines (with biblical text in alternate twenty-line columns); written area: 190 x 120 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: Puzzle initials and pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; running titles in red and blue; paragraph markers in red or blue throughout; marginalia throughout Provenance: Abate Celotti (sold London, 14 March 1825, no. 120) to Harding for Sir Thomas Phillipps; his sale (London, 1898)) to Dawson; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Stenciled [?] ex libris with a lion and "Sir T. P. Middle Hill"; Phillipps number 23864 of verso of front endpaper; also numbered B24, 736...
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