Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 5
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4372
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 5
- Title:
- De casu diaboli (On the Fall of the Devil)
- Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
- Place:
- Reims, France
- Date:
- 1150-1199
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 208 x 107 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Manuscript is composed two gatherings of scrap parchment of poor quality; layout of text follows available space
Binding: Thin pasteboard consisting of three layers of paper, including patterned, red outer wrapping
Layout: One column of thirty-three to thirty-eight lines, hard point ruling, prickings are visible
Script: Protogothic
Script: Hands of two scribes evident; both hands alternate throughout the manuscript
Decoration: Two-line red initials throughout; red-marked litterae notabiliores throughout
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, 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. 2050, no. 137.
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 Free Library, 1937), p. 8, no. 5.
Provenance: Convent of Saint Denis at Rheims, France, no. 10; Sir Thomas Phillipps, stamp of his Middle Hill Library; his sale London, Sotheby's, April 24, 1911; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_005.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_005/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
