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Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University, Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts (Set 37), no. 30

Original Condition

Page Height 180 – 185 mm
Page Width 125 – 130 mm
Height of Written Area 90 mm
Width of Written Area 60 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 14

History

Provenance

Offered by BErnard Quaritch cat. 240 (1905), no. 230 and cat. 290 (1910), no 253; Sold by Quaritch to C.L. Ricketts in 1922; C.L. Ricketts, in S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada I:643, no. 116; Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 February 1939, lot 217; Dismembered by Otto Ege or an associte; Leaves used as No. 30 in Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolio; Aquired by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH at an unknown date.

Other available descriptions

  • Parke-Bernet 1939 catalogue
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  • Quaritch 1905 Catalogue (lot 230)
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  • de Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1935-1937.
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