Portion of the prayers written backwards Binding: 17th century blind tooled calf panels inlaid in the sides, brown morocco back, gilt edges, in brown morocco case Layout: One column of fifteen lines; written area: 47 x 35 mm Script: Gothic -textualis Decoration: Thirty-one full page miniatures in gold and colors with borders containing human figures, beasts, mottoes, and flowers; three full-page borders; one historiated initial; nine decorated and illuminated initials with foliate borders; illuminated initials in text; one half-page tau cross; two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout; decorative pen flourishes... 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. 2043, no. 175. 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. 187-89, no. 175 (+ Supplement). Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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