Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 11
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4378
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 11
- Title:
- Antiphonary
- Place:
- Florence?, Italy
- Language:
- Latin; Italian
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iii+49+ii; 195 x 135 mm bound to 206 x 140 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Convent of San Paolo
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_011.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_011/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
