Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 15
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4381
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 15
- Title:
- Organon and related texts
- Aristotle
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1285-1299
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+178+i; 280 x 198 mm bound to 290 x 208 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Perry, Preston A.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Tears in fols. 23 and 160; parchment has been used to reinforce edges and repair tears on fols. 50r, 54r, 88r, 133r, and 134r; occasional natural holes in parchment and some discoloration; binding is fragile
Binding: Late nineteenth-century half red straight grain morocco; stamped in gold on spine: "Isagogi of Porphory. Latin MS. XIV [Cent.].","No. 203 in a London sale, June 1818 [per De Ricci]; Preston A. Perry sale, New York, April 21, 1908, no. 263; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Layout: Ruled in lead point and ink in one column of 26 lines; written area: 147 x 112 mm; the work of several scribes; fol. 103 is blank; fol. 178 is blank and ruled; the first flyleaf, possibly bound with the original manuscript, contains two columns of twenty-five lines of text, hard point ruling, cut off at the bottom; on the verso are six lines of so-called "Nonantulan Notation," used...
Script: Rotunda
Decoration: Twenty decorated initials with foliate extensions of varying lengths begin new books and chapters; fol. 35v features a figured initial by a different artist, with a human figure surrounded by grotesques; charts appear throughout decorated in red and black; annotations and manicules appear throughout; running heads in red identify the various books; paraph markers alternate in blue...
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. 2056, no. 166.
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. 20, no. 15.
Provenance: No. 203 in a London sale, June 1818 [per De Ricci]; Preston A. Perry sale, New York, April 21, 1908, no. 263; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; In the front flyleaf is the bookmark of J. F. Lewis, with notes written above: "Italian, very early 14th century Aristotle: Organon Preceding leaf probably... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_015.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_015/manifest.json
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