Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 16
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4382
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 16
- Title:
- Secreta secretorum (Secrets of Secrets)
- Pseudo Aristotle
- Place:
- Germany
- Language:
- Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+67+i; 295 x 209 mm bound to 302 x 224 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Wright, Harrison, Esq.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
- Note:
- Possibly part of a larger volume since manuscript begins with fol. 262
Binding: Paper boards
Script: Gothic
Decoration: Initials, some with marginal extensions; rubrication 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. 2055, no. 165.
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. 21, no. 16. [Also see Harrsen, Supplement]
Related resource: Wurms, Friedrich, "Studien zu den deutschen und den lateinischen Prosafassungen des pseudo-aristotelischen "Secretum secretorum," Ph.D. Diss. Universität Hamburg, 1970.
Provenance: Translated by Herr Melchior, Königshofen, for Sigmund von Lentershann; bought in 1870 by Harrison Wright, Esq., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 236; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; lot number for Wright's sale in the Schoenberg database is # 981 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_016.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_016/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
