Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 1

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DS ID:

DS4368

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 1

Title:

De amore et dilectione Dei (On the love and favor of God); De doctrina dicendi et tacendi (On the doctrine of speaking and keeping silent); De ritu et moribus Indorum (On the rites and ways of the Indians); Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni (History of the battles of Alexander the Great); Pseudo-Sibylline Prophecy; Sermones quattuor (Four sermons)

Author:

Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century

Albertanus of Brescia WIKIDATA

Leo, Archipresbyter, active 10th century

Leo Archpriest WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna?, Italy

Bologna TGN

Date:

1275-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+100+ii; 265 x 180 mm bound to 270 x 185 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Bragge, William, 1823-1884

William Bragge WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Spine and back cover loose
Increasing wormhole damage toward end of manuscript
Paper flyleaves
Fifteenth-century emendations and rubrics
Binding: Nineteenth-century brown morocco, black tooled, by Townsend of Suffolk
Layout: Two columns of fifty-one lines; ruled in lead point; written area: 76 x 108 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One large historiated initial with Saint James the Apostle and a soldier (fol.1r), decorated initials throughout, marginal decoration and figures (especially birds) throughout; between fols. 76r-82r are eighteen blank spaces of eight to twenty-four lines, each preceding a new chapter, possibly reserved for column miniatures
Related resource: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, Catalogue of a Magnificent Collection of Manuscripts formed by a gentleman of consummate taste and judgment…which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, at their house, No.13 Wellington Street, on Wednesday, the 7th June, 1876, and Three following Days, lot 2.
Related resource: Ricci, Seymour de, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2051, no. 144.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 1-3, no. 1.
Related resource: Rosenbach Museum and Library, Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and Near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and their Influence, exhibition catalogue. (Knoxville, TN: New Chaucer Society, 1986), pp. 75-77, no. 42.
Provenance: William Bragge, Birmingham, England, his sale 7 June 1876, lot 2; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Sermons

Historiated initials

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

inhabited initials

Drawing

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_001.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_001/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia