Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 9
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4376
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 9
- Title:
- Processional; Astronomical Text binding fragment
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- 1450-1499
1200-1299
900-999
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 51+i; 125 x 86 mm bound to 130 x 90 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Ess, Leander van 1772-1847
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_009.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_009/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
