Binding: Not bound. Figurative details, One leaf: 17-line historiated initial. Other decoration, One leaf: Chapter numbers and running-titles in alternating red and blue capitals with some flourishing, 2-line chapter initials in red or blue with penwork in the contrasting color; several 4-line illuminated initials and three historiated initials, two 6 lines high, one 7-line, in colors with burnished gold and long marginal extensions; worn and fragile with some inner... Script, One leaf: Gothic Textura. Layout, One leaf: 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 52 lines, each column 120 mm. by 37 mm. with 5 mm. between columns, script beginning below top ruled line.
Former Owner(s):
Bought in 1909 by C. L. Ricketts from Tregaskis; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
Manuscript note: Lilly Library Ricketts C: 1, Ricketts III: 25 and Ricketts III: 53, and Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis MS E29 were originally part of the same manuscript. One leaf: Latin. One leaf: I Timothy 3 to II Timothy 2.
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