Excerpts from De viris illustribus (On Famous Men); Excerpts from the Supplementum chronicarum; Excerpts from the Vita Henrici Quinti (Life of Henry V); Excerpts from works on Venice; Rumores e venetiis allati...
This text is bound at the end of an incunabulum; Wolf states: "these manuscript notes are bound after a copy of Robert Gaguin's Compendium super Francorum gestis, printed at Paris in 1500." Binding: Contemporary calf, in cloth case (De Ricci: Late sixteenth-century English calf); boards detached Layout: Frame-ruled in lead point; one column of 34-50 lines; written area: 205 x 140 mm Script: Anglicana Decoration: One eleven-line initial in red; two-line initials in red; blank spaces left for initials 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), pp. 2059-60, no. 187. 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. 153-54, no. 139. Provenance: Owned by Joseph Mayner of Exeter College, ca. 1600; Duke of Suffolk (not traced in his sales); sold by Rodd to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1845, no. 11580 (not traced in his sales); London sale, no. 674; English bookseller's catalogue, no. 307; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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