Binding: Late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century, mottled calf, gilt edges, spines decorated with gold-tooled panels and labeled PSALMEN TOM II, red edges; in case Layout: Edges trimmed; one column of twenty-one lines, ruled in brown ink (written area: 92 x 62 mm) Script: Gothic--textualis Script: Two scribes: scribe two, fol. 281r-v only Decoration: Six full-page inserted miniatures with full foliate borders, five six-to-eight-line initials with full foliate border, several three-to-six-line initials with spray extensions, two-line gold initials throughout, one-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout Provenance: Gaspar-Joseph de Servais (1735-1807), Mechelin (Malines), Belgium; his sale Mechlin, Messieurs Du Trieu, October 3, 1808, p. 31; lot. 354; Oliver Henry Perkins (Des Moines, Iowa); his sale New York, Anderson Galleries, March 23, 1926, lot 561; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; inside front cover...
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