Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 33

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4398

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 33

Title:

Bible

Place:

Paris, France

Paris TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+339+i; 148 x 98 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Abbot von Heselwang

Abbot von Heselwang WIKIDATA

Richardson, Thomas F.

Thomas F. Richardson WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Very worn inscription on front pastedown tells that the manuscript is from the monastery of Baumberg, near Traunsteinm, in Baveria and last belonged to Abbot von Heselwang
Binding: Seventeenth-century Flemish or French black morocco, elaborately tooled; stamp of the crucifixion in center of cover and on spine; clasps; gilt edges
Layout: Two columns of fifty-six lines; lead point ruling; written area: 110 x 72 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Red and blue flourished initials throughout; marginal decoration and figures throughout
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. 2025-2026, no. 5.
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), p. 41, no. 33.
Provenance: Abbot von Heselwang, Baumberg; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston (sold in 1919 ) to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_033.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_033/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia