This manuscript contains a Golden Bull of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1316-1378.
Support: Paper; Extent: i+36+i; 305 x 210 mm bound to 315 x 222 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; Collation: 1-3 (12); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords; lower inner margin verso; fols 12, 24
Ruled in hard point; one column of twenty-seven to thirty-four lines; written area: 200 x 125 mm
Gothic cursive
Initials with some decorative pen flourishing and extension of ascenders and descenders
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Germany
Circa 1450
Boards
Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Davis & Harvey, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 237; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Germany
Circa 1450
Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Davis & Harvey, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 237;
This manuscript contains a Golden Bull of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1316-1378.
Gothic cursive
Initials with some decorative pen flourishing and extension of ascenders and descenders
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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