Number "9" on bottom right of fol. 84v Back flyleaf excised along with the last two leaves, which would have been blank in the original Binding: Old calf over original (?) wooden boards, blind stamped decoration, remains of metal clasps and leather straps, leather of spine has been repaired, gilded edges; pastedowns and front flyleaf are rules in double columns Layout: One column of eighteen lines; lead point ruling; spaces left blank for small initials on three pages, filled in by a later hand; written area: 88 x 55 mm Script: Humanistic Decoration: One large illuminated initial with foliate extensions; marginal decoration added by a later hand; occasional illuminated and decorated 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. 2046, no. 120. 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. 76, no. 70. Provenance: German booksellers catalog entry pasted onto pastedown of the back cover; in pencil on pasted entry in the hand of Lewis, "Martin Breslauer;" printed number "34" ? pasted onto spine; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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