Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 30

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4395

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 30

Title:

Bible

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1225-1250

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ix+526+i; 147 x 100 mm bound to 153 x 117 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Dackomb, Thomas

Thomas Dackomb WIKIDATA

Dackomb, Jacob

Jacob Dackomb WIKIDATA

Estmond, John

John Estmond WIKIDATA

Boult, Thomas

Thomas Boult WIKIDATA

Conant, Samuel

S. S. Conant WIKIDATA

Gardner, Thomas

Thomas Gardner WIKIDATA

Barber, Thomas

Thomas Barber WIKIDATA

Ives, John

John Ives WIKIDATA

Wix, William

William Wix WIKIDATA

Wix, Samuel

Samuel Wix WIKIDATA

Hooker, Richard

Richard Hooker WIKIDATA

Wix, Edward

Edward Wix WIKIDATA

Wix, Hooker Edward

Hooker Wix WIKIDATA

Griffith, Arthur

Arthur Griffith WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Modern vellum soft cover (2006); former eighteenth-century English diced brown Russian leather binding separated from the manuscript
Layout: Two columns of 42 lines; lead point ruling (prickings visible); written area: 98 x 68 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Blue initials with red flourishes (two lines to twenty-eight lines) throughout; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue throughout; capitals highlighted in red and rubrication in red throughout
Provenance: Thomas Dackomb (1556); Jacob Dackomb, Fens Melleus (1575); John Estmond (1627); given to Thomas Boult by William Churchill, bookseller, Dorchester (1657); Samuel Conant, Litchet (1719); Thomas Gardner, Southwold, Suffolk (1769); Thomas Barber, Norfolk (1770); obtained (1771) by John Ives; his sale, London (1777); William Wix, Islington (1792); Samuel Wix, Insworth, Essex (1860...

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

English (culture or style)

England

Bible

Christianity

Sacred works

illustrations (layout features)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_030.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_030/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia