Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 10

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DS ID:

DS4377

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 10

Title:

Antiphonary, diurnal (Ambrosian Rite)

Artist:

Follower of Birago, Giovan Pietro, active 1471-1513 and Master B. F. (sometimes identified as Francisco Binasco)

Giovanni Pietro Birago WIKIDATA

Master B. F., active 1486-1545

Master B. F. WIKIDATA

Place:

Milan, Italy

Milan TGN

Date:

1500-1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+220+i; 578 x 405 mm bound to 594 x 436 mm; mixed

Former Owner(s):

Monastero di S. Ambrogio (Milan, Italy)

Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio WIKIDATA

White, Henry

Henry White WIKIDATA

Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912

Oliver Henry Perkins WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Extensive evidence of damage and repairs to parchment
Some text erased and/or rewritten
Additional musical notation on fol. 112v, in a later hand
Marginal annotations in various later hands
Two scribes: one hand executed bulk of manuscript; scribe two responsible for fols. 216v-220v
Last gathering of four folios is paper attached by strips of parchment, some with musical notation (fols. 217-220)
Binding: Italian; early seventeenth-century blind stamped red morocco over pasteboard; stamped in gold on the spine: "LIBRO CORALE DEL CANTO AMBROSIANO"
Layout: One column of thirty-sixlines; square and lozenge-shaped musical notation on six five-line staves in red, black, and yellow ink (fols. 217-220: square musical notation on four-line red staves); hard point ruled; written area: 404 x 280 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One large historiated initial with full foliate border; twenty historiated initials with foliate extensions; one marginal figure; four illuminated initials; two excised initials repaired with vellum patch; numerous decorated initials in red, blue, and black ink with pen-work decoration
Related resource: De 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. 2032, no. 44.
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), pp. 10-14, no. 10.
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 177-178, no. 61
Provenance: Monastery of Sant' Ambrogio Maggiore, Milan (sixteenth century; coat of arms on fol. 1r); Henry White, London (nineteenth century); Sotheby's sale (London, 21 April 1902) lot 47; Symes; Oliver Henry Perkins, Des Moines (his bookplate inside front cover); Anderson Galleries sale (New York, 23-24 March 1926) lot 537; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; gift of Anne Baker Lewis to the...

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

Antiphonaries

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

Historiated initials

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_010.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_010/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia