Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 11

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4378

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 11

Title:

Antiphonary

Antiphonary

Place:

Florence?, Italy

Florence TGN

Italy TGN

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+49+ii; 195 x 135 mm bound to 206 x 140 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Convent of San Paolo

Convento di San Paolo WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Third upper flyleaf is a parchment singleton, with a prominent stub visible against its recto side
Binding: Seventeenth-century black morocco, blind tooled border around the sides, with clasps
Layout: Musical notation on red, four-line staves; four staves, with accompanying text, to a page; frame ruled; written area: 149 x 91 mm
Script: Gothic--semi-textualis
Decoration: Some penwork capitals with grotesques; capitals in red and blue; rubrication and musical staves in red
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. 2033, no. 47.
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. 15, no. 11.
Provenance: Written for the burial service of the nuns of the Convent of San Paolo; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; manuscript dated 1496 on fol. 49v. 1496 was the year when reconstruction on the Ospedale di San Paolo in Florence was completed

Keyword:

Musical notation

inhabited initials

Christianity

Antiphonaries

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia