Faint traces of potential catchword, lower right-hand corner of fol. 78v Binding: Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco with gilt decorations; gilt edges and marbled paper pastedowns Layout: One column of seventeen lines, lead point ruling; written area: 107 x 74 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: Illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; eight full-page miniatures with foliate borders: fol. 14r –John on Patmos, fol. 23r – Annunciation, fol. 63r – Crucifixion, fol. 66v – Pentecost, fol. 69v – David and Bathsheba, fol. 85r – Death and a king, an emperor and a bishop, fol. 120r – Virgin and Child, fol. 125r – Trinity Provenance: Alexander Bannatyne Stewart; Maggs Brothers (bookseller); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplates of Alexander Bannatyne Stewart and John Frederick Lewis on inside front cover and recto of first flyleaf, respectively; remains of a bookseller's (?) sticker on inside front cover; hand written...
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