Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 20

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DS ID:

DS4386

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 20

Title:

De quattuor virtutibus caritatis (On the four virtues of charity)

Author:

Quodvultdeus, Bishop of Carthage, -454?

Quodvultdeus WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1000-1099

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

1100-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+46+iv; 305 x 213 mm bound to 317 x 227 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

White, Henry

Henry White WIKIDATA

LeMare

LeMare WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sidney C.

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

Folios 1 and folios 48 are medieval parchment and are numbered, but both are technically flyleaves; additional flyleaves are modern paper
Binding: Red morocco, spine and covers decorated with vertical rows of brown stamped rolls decorated with portrait busts and rosettes (spine only); gold-stamped inner edges.. DE QUATTUOR VIRTUTIBUS ST. AUGUSTINE / circa 900 stamped in gold on spine and upper cover.
Layout: One column of twenty-eight lines, hard-point ruling, prickings visible; marginal notes and corrections in contemporary hand; written area: text: 215 x 142 mm; fol. 48r (back Flyleaf 1): columns of thirty-three lines, hard-point ruling; spaces for two to three line initials left blank, one-line initials outlined in red written area: text: 227 x 157 mm
Script: Caroline minuscule
Decoration: Seven large decorated initials (4-6 lines, orange to orange-brown ink)
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. 2044, no. 112.
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. 26, no. 20.
Provenance: LeMare (sixteenth century); bookplate of Henry White; sold London, Sotheby's, 1902, no. 91; Sidney C. Cockerell; book plate of George Dunn of Woolley Hall (1864-1912); London, Sotheby's, sale February 13, 1913, no. 387 to Maggs (bookseller); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; fol. 1r (flyleaf...

Keyword:

Twelfth century

Missals

Christianity

France

Sermons

Fathers of the church

Caroline minuscule

Theology

Eleventh century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_020.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_020/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia