Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 35

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DS ID:

DS4400

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 35

Title:

Biblical commentary on the Pentateuch (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers)

Author:

Langton, Stephen, -1228

Stephen Langton WIKIDATA

Place:

Pontigny?, France

Pontigny TGN

Date:

1220-1230

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: v+206+v; 270 x 180-195 mm bound to 285 x 215 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Text is a fragment, very imperfect
Chapter numbers noted in some margins (per Debra Cashion)
Flyleaves are heavy nineteenth-century paper
Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; some marginal notes trimmed; stamped in gold on spine: "PENTATEUCH EXODUS LEVITICUS & NUMBERS, LATIN MS. XIII CENTURY"
Layout: Two columns of thirty-six lines, written mostly above the top line; frame-ruled in lead; prickings visible; written area: 205-215 x 140-160 mm
Script: Protogothic
Decoration: One three-line penwork initial in red (fol. 90r); lemmata underlined in red and initials touched with red 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. 2048, no. 127.
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. 42, no. 35.
Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 24331 (inscription in ink, fol. 1r); C. Scoles sale (London, 10 July 1906, no. 447) to Dodwell; sold (London, 1903, no. 145) to Ellis; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalog entries pasted on the verso of the fifth flyleaf

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

biblical

Sacred works

France

Fathers of the church

Gothic (Medieval)

Commentaries

Theology

French (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_035.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_035/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia