Glossed throughout Occasional manicules Annotation on fol. 10r mentions the humanist Lorenzo Valla Evidence of historic damage and repairs Binding: Black morocco, stamped in gold on the spine: "...COMEDIÆ COD..."; with blue silk ribbon bookmark; in a red morocco slipcase by H. Zucker of Philadelphia, stamped in gold on spine: "`TERENTII COMOEDIAE LATIN MS XIV. CENTURY A PALIMPSEST" Layout: One column of up to thirty lines; ruled in hard point and ink; visible pricking; written area: 95 x 62 mm; rubrication distinguishes speakers; running headings throughout Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Simple colored capitals only 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. 2056, no. 170. 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. 215, no. 196. Provenance: Possibly lot 283 in the Abate Celotti sale, London March 13, 1825; Sir Thomas Phillips, Middle Hill, c. 1825; sold to Maggs, London 1899; sold by Sotheby's, London June 25, 1917; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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