Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 22
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4388
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 22
- Title:
- Enarrationes in psalmos (Expositions on the psalms); Initials (ABC); Prayer
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- 1150-1199
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 181+ii; 255 x 175 mm bound to 260 x 190 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Santa María de Benevívere (Monastery : Spain)
Bragge, William
Hart, Gerald E. (Gerald Ephraim), 1849-1936, Montreal
Dunn, George
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Binding: Contemporary binding; pigskin over oak boards, with worm damage; groove for clasp is visible on the front cover; spine reinforced in early twentieth century; binding partially detached
Layout: Written in one column of twenty-three lines; frame-ruled in dry point with double bounding lines; prickings visible; written area: 255 x 172 mm
Script: Protogothic
Script: Scribe: Didacus?
Decoration: Approximately fifteen large decorated initials, four to ten lines in height, in combinations of red, yellow, and blue; smaller red decorated initials throughout; first words after a large initial often covered with a yellow wash; rubrication in red
Provenance: Abbey of Santa María de Benevívere (Spain, twelfth century; ex libris of the monastery: "hec est liber s[an]c[t]e marie de beneuiuere qui abstulerit anathema sit, Amen, am[en] amen," fol. 180v); Brother Hugo (prayer written in fifteenth-century hand and signed, last leaf verso); William Bragge (sold 1876); Gerald E. Hart, Montreal (sold 1890); George Dunn of Woolley Hall (sold... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_022.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_022/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
