The spine has been redone and the original backbone is in the case Parchment guards in the center of every quire Binding: Original wooden boards and stamped leather (stars, rosettes, fleurs-de-lys, lions rampant, bulls), backed with leaves of a twelfth-century liturgical manuscript; original vellum label on top cover; remains of clasp, in cloth case Layout: One column of thirty-three lines; rubriction and two- and three-line initials in red; drypoint frame-ruled; written area: 153 x 96 mm Script: Gothic--cursiva Decoration: Initials, paragraph marks, rubrication 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. 2051, no. 141. 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. 85, no. 78. Provenance: Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA, his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 239; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; the name of Harrison Wright is inscribed on the front with a date of 1869
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