Paper flyleaves Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata is in two sizes, with the antiphons and versicles in a smaller size; calendar in Bâtarde Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, triple gilt fillets on sides, elaborately gilt back, gilt edges; pastedowns and endpapers are painted purple and decorated with a gold vine design; stamped in gold on spine: "HEURES GOTHIQUE" Layout: One column of fourteen lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink with bounding lines erased in margins; prickings visible on pages with miniatures (except for fol. 85r); written area: 91 x 65 mm Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata Script: Bâtarde Decoration: Five three-quarter-page miniatures; floral borders in calendar and pages with miniatures and major text divisions; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout; initials touched in yellow 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. 2036, no. 65. 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), pp. 98-99, no. 90. Related resource: Duclow, Donald F. "The Virgin's 'Good Death': The Dormition in Fifteenth-Century Drama and Art." Fifteenth-Century Studies 21 (1994), p. 62, fig. 15. Provenance: Sale by Hodgson (London, 29 March 1906, no. 181) to Sabin; obtained from Paul Gottschalk, Berlin, sale of 10 Dec. 1912; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "Paul Gottschalk, Berlin, 10/12/1912/ 500" written on back flyleaf
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