Some gold has flaked and silver paint has oxidized on fols. 19r, 57r, 98r, 105r; some of the blue rubrics throughout are now faint; paint has been worn/flaked on fol. 69r, rendering the faces in the miniature blank Some of the miniature appear to have been retouched Inscriptions in miniatures: fol. 19r: illegible inscriptions on intertwined gold and silver vine scrolls in right margin; fol. 45r: illegible inscriptions on the Angel Gabriel's scroll, and on open book in front of the Virgin Mary; in the lower margin is the inscription: "Qui bien en ionesse naprent en sa veillesse sen repant"; fol. 57r: illegible inscriptions written on gold and silver... Incipit text at the beginning of each major textual division is gilded Calendar and prayers on fols. 19r-24v and 25r-28v in French Binding: French red morocco, triple gilt fillets around sides and gilt frames in centers with floral ornaments at the corners, elaborately floral gilt back, gilt edges, seventeenth century Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 99 x 61 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: Fourteen three-quarter-page miniatures surrounded by full foliate border; half-page floral borders in calendar and on pages where textual divisions occur; illuminated initials and line-fillers 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. 2035, no. 63. 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. 102-103, plate XVI, no. 93. Provenance: Unidentified coat of arms of the original owner in the lower margin of fol. 80v, three doves proper on a field of gules; Bull and Auvache, London, ₤30 (as per inscription in J.F. Lewis' hand on one of the back flyleaves); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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