Binding: Contemporary brown morocco over wooden boards, paneled sides with two blind tooled arabesque borders, in the center the sacred monogram YHS gilt; impressions of former clasps and bosses; paper label on spine with title in ink, Costumi e vita de' Poveri [?] Gesuati Layout: Written in one column of twenty-two lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; written area: 145 x 90 mm Script: Humanistic Script: Scribe: Piero di Simon Bartholi, of Florence Decoration: Trilateral border in gold and colors, of formalized floral design with medallions at the top and bottom containing the sacred monogram within gold lines (fol. 1r); floral borders along the inner margins of two other pages (fols. 53r, 60r); an historiated L on the first page showing a brother of the Jesuati (fol. 1r); decorative initials in gold on red, blue, and green grounds at... Provenance: Originally owned by the Ingesuati at the monastery of San Giusto, outside the walls of Florence at the Porta Pinti (fol. 50r); Thomas F. Richardson, Boston (stamp, front flyleaf recto); obtained by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919 (signature and date in ink, front flyleaf recto); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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