Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 21

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DS ID:

DS4387

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 21

Title:

De sermone domini in monte habito (On the sermon on the mount) and other treatises; De superbia (On pride) and other treatises; Expositio dominice orationis (Exposition on the lord's prayer)

Author:

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1300-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+97+i; 155 x 110 mm bound to 163 x 120 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Fols. 1-66: frame-ruled in lead (every line ruled) in two columns with prick marks every line, thirty to thirty-one lines; written area: 120 x 80 mm
Layout: Fols. 67-86: frame-ruled in lead (every line ruled) in two columns with prick marks every line, thirty-two lines/page; written area: 117 x 84 mm
Layout: Fols. 87-97: frame-ruled in ink (every line ruled) in long lines, twenty lines/page; written area: 145 x 95 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Fols. 1-66: two-, three-line initials pen-flourished in red and blue, alternating red and blue paragraphs, majuscules stroked in red throughout, rubricated headings; fols. 67-86: blank spaces left for two-line initials throughout, red paragraphs throughout, rubricated headings, manicules (fols. 68v, 72v, 81v, 83v, 86r) drawings attached to hyperextended descenders on final lines...
Provenance: Given by John Frederick Lewis' widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Christianity

Sacred works

Germany

Theology

manicules

treatises

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_021.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_021/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia