Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 36

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DS ID:

DS4401

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 36

Title:

Bible

Place:

Padua or Venice, Italy

Padua TGN

Date:

1260-1280

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+370+i; 158 x 113 mm bound to 168 x 123 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Several initials have been excised
Edges of the book have been trimmed; right edge of fol. 1r trimmed approx. 18 mm from text block
Binding: Nineteenth-century Italian goatskin binding with gold-stamped and lettered spine, inscribed: "BIBLIA SAEC. XIII"
Layout: Two columns of fifty-four lines, ruled in lead; written area: 120 x 78 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Script: Libraria, littera bononiensis
Decoration: Thirty-six historiated initials, seventeen decorated initials, flourished initials throughout, running titles in alternating red and blue ink 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. 2026, no. 8.
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 Library, 1937), p. 43, no. 36.
Related resource: Angela Daneu Lattanzi, "I Manoscritti e incunaboli miniati italiani della Biblioteca Bodleiana di Oxford nel catalogue di O. Pächt e J.J.G. Alexander" Bolletino d'Arte (1972), p. 47.
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 31-33, no. 4.
Related resource: New York, New York Public Library, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, edited by Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (New York: New York Public Library and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005), p. 71 n.12.
Provenance: William Morris of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, England; sale, Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1898, lot 34; J. J. Leighton Co., London, 1920, cat. II (1921), no. 433; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Bible

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_036.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_036/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia