Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 25

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4390

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 25

Title:

De forma honestae vitae; De institutione monachorum

Author:

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379

Basil of Caesarea WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+32+i; 254 x 183 mm bound to 257 x 189 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Nineteenth-century German paper boards
Layout: Frame-ruled in hardpoint; two columns of thirty-nine to forty-four lines; written area: 176 x 127 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One- to four-line initials in red throughout; titles in red; rubrication throughout
Provenance: Benedictine-Marienmünster, archdiocese of Paderborn (identifying inscription dated circa 1600); Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 564; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 68, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Fathers of the church

Gothic (Medieval)

Theology

Fifteenth century

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_025.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_025/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia