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Detail: folio 1, recto
Excerpts from the Enchiridion
Detail: folio 1, recto

Excerpts from the Enchiridion

Pope Leo III (attr.) (died 816)
about 1400–50
Medium/TechniqueInk, pencil (modern), and gold on parchment; bindings of calfskin over pasteboard, with traces of gilding
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 13.1 x 8 cm (5 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number17.514
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
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InscriptionsSeventeenth-century Italian notes inside upper cover relating to currency exchanges. Nineteenth-century shelf-mark "88" on front pastedown, "8662" on f. 1 recto.ProvenanceIn the 17th century, probably in Italy [see note 1]. By 1913, Dr. Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935) [see note 2]; 1917, gift of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross. (Accession date: February 15, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] Seventeenth-century Italian notes inside upper cover relating to currency exchanges. [2] From 1913 until it was made a gift, this manuscript was on loan to the MFA from Dr. Denman Waldo Ross.
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