Becker identifies the script as bâtarde Binding: 19th century paper boards Layout: One column of twenty-two to twenty-eight lines; unlined; frame-ruled in light-brown ink; written area: 205 x 123 mm Script: Gothic--cursiva Decoration: Large initial in brown and red with penwork tracery (fol. 1r); red two- and three-line initials throughout; headings touched up 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. 2055, no. 163. 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. 75, no. 69 (+ Supplement). Related resource: Hans-Jürgen Becker. "Eine unbekannte Handschrift des Schwaben- und Augsburger Sachsenspiegels." Zietschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteiling 88 (1971): 190-197 Provenance: Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 238; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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