Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234 are all associated with the College of Saint Jerome, Belém, and were purchased from Hiersemann of Leipzig in 1900 Text annotated and corrected by later hands, in red and black ink Remains of paper tabs throughout, some clearly cut from printed books, some with eighteenth-century(?) script Occasional erasures throughout Some text and musical notation flaking Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps Layout: Single column of twenty lines; five-line staves in red ink with musical notation; hard ruled; written area: 400 x 274 mm Script: Gothic--rotunda Decoration: Three illuminated initials (fols. 1r, 34r, 77r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration; three unfinished initials (fols. 115r, 116r, 117r) 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. 453, no. 38. 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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