Binding: 18th century vellum binding, edges dyed blue, traces of straps on front and back covers Layout: Frame-ruled in lead; one column of twenty-two lines; written area: 103 x 75 mm Script: Gothic--textualis, with some cursive features Decoration: One full-page miniature (Agony in the Garden, fol. 2v); two marginal images: The five wounds (fol. 1r), Heart pierced by arrows (fol. 9v); large decorated initials in red and blue with pen flourishing and partial borders; one- and two-line initials in red or blue throughout; three-line decorated initials in red and blue with pen flourishing throughout; rubrication throughout... Provenance: James Vallentin (signature front flyleaf recto); Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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