Front cover detached from spine Folios missing before fols. 1 and 81, and after fol. 86 Marginal annotations in contemporary and later scripts Text flaking in places Erased nineteenth-century(?) inscription on fol. 25v Staves extended or added in later hands on fols. 28r and 84v Parchment extensively repaired throughout Remains of paper and parchment marker tabs Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps, some missing Layout: Single column of twenty-one lines; lead point ruling; five-line staves in red ink; written area: 415 x 245 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: One illuminated initial (fol. 65v); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration 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. 452-53, no. 37. Provenance: Almost certainly made for the Jerónimos Monastery near Lisbon; Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900; catalog entry and typed description pasted onto the inside front cover; bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia pasted on to inside front cover; Stamped "Geo. S. Pepper Fund" and "3079," bottom of fol. 1r
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