Some leaves misbound, including two blanks and seven added leaves of indices Paper flyleaves, last flyleaf detached Binding: Nineteenth-century wooden boards and black morocco, gilt tooled floral borders on sides, gilt back, gilt edges, in cloth case Layout: One column of thirty-three to forty-one lines; prickings visible; written area: 156 x 108 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Script: Written by multiple hands Decoration: Capitals, one-line to six-line, mostly two-line and in red, in some brief sections alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork; rubrication and paragraph marks in red Related resource: Rosenbach Museum and Library, Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and Near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and their Influence, exhibition catalogue. (Knoxville, TN: New Chaucer Society, 1986), pp. 67-69, no. 39. 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. 180-81, no. 166. 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. 2052, no. 146. Provenance: Purchased in Paris, 1397; Rome (according to illegible sixteenth-century note); at the abbey of Moyenmoutiers, 1717 (shelfmark X.1.46); Davis and Orioli, Cat. 19, June, 1917, no. 5; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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