Collation note: Appears to be quired in gatherings of eight; manuscript consists of fragments from at least three different manuscripts bound together; no evidence of catchwords or contemporary foliation Binding: De Ricci: English paper boards, ca 1830 (by the Phillipps binder) Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 10 lines; fol. 25 (insert) in one column of 22 lines; written area: 71 x 55 mm Script: Gothic--textualis Decoration: One three-line initial in colors on a gold ground; two- and three-line pen-flourished decorated initials in red and blue throughout; one-line initials in red or blue throughout; rubrication 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. 2043, no. 106. 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. 191, no. 177 (+Supplement). Provenance: No. 34 in an old collection; Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 59; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 444=21986; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 677, to P. M. Barnard; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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