Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 34

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DS ID:

DS4399

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 34

Title:

Bible

Place:

Paris, France

Paris TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+338+ii; 240 x 165 mm bound to 254 x 200 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833

George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

This manuscript was rebound in the early nineteenth century by the bookbinder Charles Lewis (d. 1836); the coat-of-arms that decorate the cover belong to the first Duke of Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), one of the book's previous owners
Front cover and front flyleaves are detached
Quire (probably only one) is missing after quire 1 (skips from Genesis Chapter 26 to Chapter 32), contemporary quire signatures do not skip, which implies the quire was never bound in; leaf missing between fol. 13 and fol. 14 (skips from Genesis Chapter 37 to Chapter 39); fol. 31 contains Genesis Chapters 29-31;
Quires 17 and 18 (Psalms) lack headings and the ink in quire 18 is lighter than that used in the rest of the manuscript
Binding: Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco by Charles Lewis (d. 1836); with a gilt coat of arms of the Duke of Sutherland; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA LATINA M.S.
Layout: Two columns of fifty lines, lead point ruling; written area: 171 x 116 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Decoration: Red and blue flourished initials 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. 2027, no. 12.
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. 41-42, no. 34.
Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower, First Duke of Sutherland; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Bible

Christianity

France

Heraldry

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_034.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_034/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia