Fols. 1-3 and 146-153 are original blank-but-ruled flyleaves Binding: Black stamped morocco over wooden boards, possibly sixteenth-century Layout: One column of nineteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 112 x 79 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Nine full-page miniatures with full inhabited floral borders; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout Related resource: American Art Association, Collection of Miss Susan Minns of Boston, Mass.; Books, Bookplates, Coins, Curios, Prints, Illuminated Manuscripts and Horae Illustrative of "The Dance of Death," to be sold May 2nd and 3rd, 1922 (Greenwich, Conn.: Condé Nast, 1922), lot 420 (with illustration). 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. 2039, no. 87. 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. 111-112, no. 102. Related resource: Brinkmann, Bodo, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols. (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), p. 146, text ill. 42-43 (attributed to the master of Master Edward IV). Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) Provenance: Susan B. Minns (sold at American Art Association, 2-3 May 1922, lot 420); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalogue entry with illustration tipped onto inside front cover; pencil "310" written in inside front cover
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