Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 29

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DS ID:

DS4394

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 29

Title:

Bible

Artist:

William, de Brailes, active 13th century

William de Brailes WIKIDATA

Place:

Oxford, England

Oxford TGN

Date:

1230-1240

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+160+ii; 185 x 126 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

James Tregaskis (Firm)

James & Mary Lee Tregaskis (Firm) WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Fragile; binding structure exposed; many leaves torn and damaged
Four single leaves kept separately (fols. 157-160)
Fourteen leaves from this manuscript are in the Lilly Library at Indiana University (Ricketts MSS C1, III:25, and III:53)
Binding: Sixteenth century (?); worn red leather over exposed oak boards; remains of two clasps; boards slightly too narrow for text block
Layout: Two columns of fifty-two lines; ruled in brown ink; written area: 118 x 75 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Thirty-nine inhabited initials with biblical figures or scenes; forty-seven illuminated initials, some with marginal extensions/borders terminating in dragons or other figures
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. 2025, no. 4.
Related resource: Noel, William, "Some Transatlantic Trails of W. de Brailes," in The Medieval Book: Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel (Houten, Netherlands: Hed & De Graaf Publishers, 2010), pp. 441-445.
Related resource: Edwin Wolf II, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1937), p. 36-37, no. 29.
Related resource: Cynthia Johnston, "A Model Community? An Investigation into the Use of Models in the Work of William de Brailes," in The Use of Models in Medieval Book Painting, ed. Monika E. Müller (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2014), pp. 90-98 (chapter: 89-110).
Provenance: James Tregaskis, bookseller, London (1909); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

English (culture or style)

England

Missing leaves

Bible

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

illuminations (paintings)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_029.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_029/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia