Binding: Later marbled paper over paper boards Layout: Two columns of forty to fifty-four lines; first part frame-ruled in ink (fols. 1-54), second part frame-ruled in lead (fols. 55-118); running titles for feast or ferial days in upper margin; written area: 210 x 140 mm Script: Gothic--cursiva Script: Hybrida Decoration: Initials in red, mostly two or three lines in height, except for a simple nine-line initial at the beginning of the Sunday sermons (fol. 1r), and a six-line initial ornamented with green penwork at the beginning of the Lenten sermons (fol. 55r); paragraph marks, underlining, rubrication, capitals touched in red Provenance: Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 307; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 691 (inscription, fol. 1r); his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, 727, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (armorial bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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