Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 12
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4379
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 12
- Title:
- Antiphonary
- Place:
- Italy
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 75; 570 x 386 mm bound to 590 x 420 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Richardson, Thomas F.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Detached corner ornament contained in curatorial file
Some damage from flaking
A number of folios have been excised
Remains of paper pastedowns on staves
Binding: Stamped Russian leather over wooden boards; brass corner ornaments; one clasp, remains of another
Layout: One column of five lines; four-line staves with musical notation in red ink; ruled in red ink; evidence of pricking; written area: 430 x 300 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Ten illuminated initials; numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration
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. 48.
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. 16, no. 12.
Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston (lot 48 in his 1919 sale); 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_012.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_012/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
