Table (fols. 309-213) incomplete Leaves missing after fols. 296 and 312 Inscribed on bottom edge: "Comple[menti]"? Binding: Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; original bosses on the covers; original three link chain fastened to top edge of lower cover Layout: Two columns of forty-six lines; frame-ruled in ink; written area: 221 x 141 mm Script: Gothic--cursiva Script: Protogothic Decoration: One colored initial with pen-work decoration (fol. 1r); numerous colored 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), pp. 2052-53, no. 149. 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. 209, no. 190. Related resource: Krämer, Sigrid, "Neue Nachrichten über die ehemalige Pfarrbibliothek von Ebern", Mainfränkischen Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst, vol. 28 (1976), pp. 36-47. Provenance: Johannes de Helb, vicar of the church of Saint Laurentius, Ebern (Bavaria), mid-fifteenth century; Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, Washington DC; his sale, Anderson Galleries, March 20, 1905, no. 2745; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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