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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4376

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 9

Title:

Processional; Astronomical Text binding fragment

Processional

Astronomical texts

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1450-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

900-999

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 51+i; 125 x 86 mm bound to 130 x 90 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Ess, Leander van 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation note: 2 stubs after fol. 12, 1 stub before fol. 43
Text and music from fol. 49v to the end were added at a later date
Thirteenth-century binding fragment pasted to inner front board; Tenth-century binding fragment of an astrological treatise pasted to inner back board
Binding: Contemporary red pigskin over wooden boards, brass studs and clasp, with fragments of a thirteenth-century manuscript pasted to the inside of the front board, and fragment of a tenth-century astronomical treatise pasted to inside of the back board
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink, one column of ruled staves in red, yellow, and brown; four staves per folio; written area: 85 x 60 mm; an extra slip of musical notation, accompanying the phrase "Sancte fortis," has been tipped in before fol. 51
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Decoration: Flourished initials in red and blue or red and black throughout; rubrication of capitals and decoration in red and green throughout; some decorated hyper-extended descenders (e.g., fol. 12v); inhabited initials (fols. 15r, 20v, 21r)
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. 42.
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. 12, no. 9.
Provenance: Collection of Professor Leander van Ess, Darmstadt, no. 318, sold 1824; Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 702=21985, sold via Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, lot 25, to Ettinghausen; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Science

inhabited initials

Gothic (Medieval)

Processionals (Liturgical books)

Astrology

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Tenth century

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia