The front cover is nearly detached Initial by same hand as that of Lewis E 221 and 223 Some flaking of ink Remains of parchment and paper marker tabs throughout Binding: Eighteenth-century; stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps; edges stained red Layout: One column of twenty lines; lead point ruling; written area: 440 x 260 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: One illuminated initial with an all'antica panel border (fol. 1r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration, some extending into marginal drawings of birds (fols. 114r and 134r) Related resource: J. Thomson, Hither and Thither (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 135-144. Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 452, no. 27. Provenance: Gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (see colophon, fol. 163v); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900
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