Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 17
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4383
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 17
- Title:
- Armorial
- Place:
- Austro-Bavaria
- Date:
- 1500-1599
- Language:
- German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+240+i; 285 x 196 mm bound to 293 x 200 mm; paper
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Manuscript is listed in DeRicci on page 2098 of the 1937 edition under the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Binding: Vellum
Layout: Two lines of five or six (fols. 2-4, 214-223) or three lines of twelve (fols. 5-178) heraldic crests and shields; text frame-ruled in lead/hardpoint (fols. 179-213, 238-240) in thirty-one to forty-four lines, written area: 237 x 135 mm; lists ruled in ink (fols. 224-237), written area: 235 x 132 mm
Script: Secretary
Decoration: Heraldic crests and shields in various colors; woodcut stamps with hand-coloring and some pen infilling; tipped-in woodcuts, including a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian (fol. 1)
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. 22, no. 17 (Plate VI).
Provenance: Two modern pastedowns at the front, "From the Count of Leiders Monastery" and "From the Monastery of Attel, near Wasserburg on the Tun, in Bavaria"; 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_017.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_017/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
