Early repairs to parchment throughout Some leaves cut or otherwise damaged Loose fragment of parchment between fols. 81 and 82 Marginal note listing the nine orders of angels on fol. 73r The marginal drawings in drypoint are not visible in the digital images Binding: Nineteenth-century green morocco, gilt tooled decoration, gilt edges, marble paper pastedowns and end leaves; stamped in gold on spine: "Liber Sententiarum" Layout: Two columns of forty lines; lead point ruling with columns for marginal gloss, pricking visible; evidence of trimming; written area: 203 x 136 mm Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata Decoration: Six large decorated initials, two unfinished; small blue initials with red pen-work decoration throughout; occasional marginal drawings in drypoint; manicules throughout 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. 2050, no. 139. 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. 184, no. 170. Provenance: Pope Clement XI (early eighteenth century); Joseph Barrois (sold 1849); Earl of Ashburnham (sold 1901); George Dunn of Wooley Hall (ex-Libris of George Dunn of Wooley Hall on inside front cover; sold 1913 to Tregaskis); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalog entries pasted on recto of first end...
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