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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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These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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