Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 28
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4393
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 28
- Title:
- Bible
- Artist:
- Mathurin atelier
- Place:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1240-1260
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iv+653+iii; 156 x 100 mm bound to 163 x 110 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Marie-François Duchesne de Beaumanoir
Thorpe, Thomas, 1791-1851
Livermore, George, 1809-1865
Hill, Dana
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
Hoe, Robert
- Note:
- Fols. i-iii are modern parchment flyleaves; fol. iv is an older but not original flyleaf
"On fol. iiir is a faint modern inscription and a pasted-in paper slip in micrographic script, in Italian"
Fol. ivr signed "George Livermore, Dana Hill, Cambridge;" and "From the library of his royal Highness the duke of Sussex. Bought in London 1845."
Fol 1r: signed "E. Lib. Mariae Francisci Duchesne de Beaumanoir, 1823." ; a Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum belonging to the same owner, with a similar inscription, can be found at Harvard: Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Lat. 48
Historiated initial showing the Seven Days of Creation on fol. 5r originally terminated with the Crucifixion, now removed; transfer visible on facing leaf; catalogue of the Biblioteca Sussexiana (1827) mentions the Crucifixion as intact
Corrections, notations, and marginal drawings by contemporary hands throughout
Binding: Circa 1900, French, brown morocco, gilt spray tooling on sides and back, brown morocco doublures with gold tooled borders, by Émile-Philippe Mercier (1855-1910); front doublure stamped MERCIER SC. DE CUZIN
Layout: Two of columns of forty-eight lines, ruled in lead; written area: 113 x 68 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a
Decoration: Seven historiated initials in the style of the Mathurin atelier (attributed by Debra Taylor Cashion); eighty-two five-to-seven-line illuminated initials at beginning of each book, some inhabited; alternating red and blue initials with penwork elongations in alternating colors, running titles throughout
Related resource: Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, Bibliotheca Sussexiana (London, 1827), vol. 1:1, p. lxxiii, no. 9.
Related resource: Hoe, Robert, A Catalogue of Manuscripts forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe (New York, 1909), p. 6.
Related resource: Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York; illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, historical bindings, early English literature, rare Americana, French illustrated books, eighteenth century English authors, autographs, manuscripts, etc. ... To be sold by auction... by the Anderson auction company... (New York, 1911-1912), vol. 2, no. 2426.
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. 2026, no. 7.
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. 35-36, no. 28.
Provenance: Marie-François Duchesne de Beaumanoir (1823); Duke of Sussex, London; his sale London (1844) to Thomas Thorpe; George Livermore (1809-1865), Dana Hill, Cambridge, MA; William Stuart sale, London (6 March 1895, n. 4) to Nichols; Robert Hoe, New York; his sale, Anderson Auction Company, New York (8 January 1912, II, n. 2426); A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_028.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_028/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
