Calendar, some rubrics and prayers in French Collation note: Structure uncertain; some leaves misbound; many leaves lacking; pages with large miniatures have been removed; no evidence of catchwords or quire signatures Binding: Nineteenth-century red velvet covers; gilded, gauffered edges Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 25 lines; written area: 104x64 mm Script: Bâtarde Decoration: Twenty-four calendar vignettes with the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months (fols. 1r-6v); foliate and inhabited borders, illuminated one- and two-line initials and line-fillers throughout Provenance: Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel (d. 1822); John Ruskin (sold 1904); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplate of Archbishop of Cashel pasted onto inside of front cover and the bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on recto of front flyleaf; two dealer catalog descriptions pasted onto the...
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