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This manuscript contains an early fifteenth-century copy of Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome) and Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers).
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+160+i; 329 x 220 bound to 345 x 244; Foliation: Modern foliation in ink, upper right recto; Collation: 1-16 (10); Catchwords: Horizontal lower right verso enclosed in banner; fols. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150
Frame-ruled in lead hard point in one column of 32 lines; prickings extant; written area: 213 x 150 mm
Gothic textualis
Six-line and two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue with puzzle and foliate design throughout; manicules and rubrication throughout
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Written by order of Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia in Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24)
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
1423
Seventeenth-century Belgian or French calf
Latin
Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia, Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24); in France by ca. 1800; bought by the Earl of Ashburnham in 1872; his sale, London, 1899, no. 160 to Leighton for George Dunn; his sale, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 678; to Young; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Germany
1423
Latin
Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia, Ermeland, East Prussia
This manuscript contains an early fifteenth-century copy of Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome) and Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers).
Written by order of Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia in Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24)
Gothic textualis
Six-line and two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue with puzzle and foliate design throughout; manicules and rubrication throughout
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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