Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 26
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4391
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 26
- Title:
- De consideratione (On Consideration)
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, approximately 1085-1148?
- Place:
- Flanders?
- Date:
- 1400-1415
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 124; 234 x 164 mm bound to 242 x 172 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Folio 1 is conjoined to upper pastedown; lower pastedown is conjoined to folio 122 as part of the final duernion
Binding: Eighteenth-century Belgian half sheep
Layout: One column of twenty-seven lines; ruled in black ink; written area: 159 x 106 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Ornamental initials in red and blue with marginal penwork extensions; rubrication and capitals touched up in red
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. 2050, no. 138.
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), pp. 32-33, no. 26.
Provenance: De Ricci states: "N. 459 in an English bookseller's cat. (Thorp?)"; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_026.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_026/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
