Expositio super novem lectiones mortuorum / Richard Rolle of Hampole

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Title from printed catalog.
Script: Anglicana. One 14th-century scribe, probably in Oxford, was responsible for the main text. An early 15th-century scribe was responsible for the marginal annotations and second text.
Decoration: Chapters open with 2- to 3-line blue initials with red pen flourishes (fols. 1r-17v); guide letters were left for unexecuted 2-line initials at the beginning of brief notes or commentaries (fols. 17v-22v).

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England, late 19th century. Bound by Roger de Coverly, who was active in London from 1871 to 1901, (stamped “Roger de Coverly & Sons, London” on the verso of the first front flyleaf).

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Garrett MS. 87 was bound together with Garrett MSS. 66, 75, 85, and 86 until the late 19th century, when the volume was broken up into at least five separate volumes, which were bound in matching bindings by the London bookbinder Roger de Coverly. The intermediate provenance of Garrett MS. 87 is unknown. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 10 June 1926 from the New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930). Owner's or dealer's marks “M6145” and “H10749” (flyleaf, pencil). Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

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Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 176-178.

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