Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 6

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DS ID:

DS4373

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 6

Title:

Antiphonary, Dominican use

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Reims?, France

Rheims TGN

Date:

1300-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 329+i; 257 x 179 mm bound to 260 x 180 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Last nine folios are a later addition; "913" written in pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf; note of circa 1800 describing the manuscript in Italian on the recto of the back flyleaf; Sticker with the number "3249" written in ink in a nineteenth-century hand on the lower edge of the back cover
The inscription in the margin of fol. 187r, which reads "S. Thom[as] Aquin[as]," was written in a later hand and marks the place in the liturgy that the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (March 7) should appear; Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican saint, and that along with the inclusion of the feasts of saints such as Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, help to establish that this book was used...
Binding: Seventeenth-century black morocco with blind stamped decoration; One clasp and remains of another are still attached
Layout: Part I: lead point ruling; square notation on four-line red staves; first page has been sewn onto a new piece of parchment so that the verso of the page is no longer visible; sewn repairs throughout the manuscript (from the eighteenth or nineteenth century?); written area: 180 x 125 mm; Part II: lead point ruling; square notation on five-line red staves; red initials throughout...
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Illuminated initials with extenders throughout; red and blue flourished initials 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. 2032, no. 41.
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. 9, no. 6.
Provenance: Manuscript was in Italy circa 1800; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

France

Antiphonaries

illuminations (paintings)

Liturgics

French (culture or style)

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_006.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_006/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia