Marginal notes in Latin and in a northern German dialect Fragmentary; pages excised from manuscript; stubs between fols. 4 and 5, 14 and 15, and two stubs after final folio (between fols. 14-15: stub with edge of illuminated initial visible); pages have been trimmed; right third of fol. 12 is trimmed Binding: Early twentieth-century half brown morocco; stamped in gold on spine: PSALMS (FRAGMENT) XIII. CENTURY MS. Layout: One column of twenty-two lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 152 x 108 mm Script: Protogothic Decoration: Two illuminated initials; three- and one-line red decorated initials 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. 2028, no. 22. 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. 199, no. 184. Provenance: John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (note written in Lewis's hand on f. 1r: "Fragment XIII century Psalms 75-77, 79 [pro parte] 80-95, 98 [pro parte] 99-101; 2 initials in colours, 16 leaves, in quarto;" catalog entry bound in between leaves four and five); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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