Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 19

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DS ID:

DS4385

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 19

Title:

In epistolam Johannis ad Parthos (Sermons on the first epistle of Saint John)

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1185-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+48+i; 263 x 180 mm bound to 269 x 188 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Pithou, P.

Pierre Pithou WIKIDATA

Lepelletier de Rosanbo

Lepeletier de Rosanbo WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Library of the Dominicans of Paris

Library of the Dominicans of Paris WIKIDATA

Note:

Text is incomplete, ending in the middle of tract eight (of ten)
Fol. 48v: An inscription in a Renaissance hand at the bottom of page gives the contents of the manuscript and explains that it ends in tract eight and is missing tracts nine and ten
Binding: Seventeenth-century vellum binding; handwritten on spine, "S August. Sermones"
Layout: Written area: 208 x 125 mm; One column of twenty-eight lines, lead point ruling
Script: Caroline Minuscule
Decoration: Seven decorated initials
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. 2045, no. 113.
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. 24, no. 19.
Provenance: P. Pithou (purchased at Troyes, 7 June 1613); Lepelletier de Rosanbo; Duchess de Berry (Paris, sale 1837); Library of the Dominicans of Paris; Guglielmo Libri sale (London, 1859); Sir Thomas Phillipps (his sale, 1898); Ouseley; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (1911); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplates of John Frederick...

Keyword:

Twelfth century

Christianity

Sacred works

France

Sermons

Fathers of the church

Caroline minuscule

Theology

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_019.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_019/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia