Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 37

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4402

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 37

Title:

Bible

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1260-1280

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+499+iii; 375 x 260 mm bound to 390 x 280 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Mannheimer Hofbibliothek

Mannheimer Hofbibliothek WIKIDATA

Stuart, William, 1798-1874

William Stuart WIKIDATA

Baillie-Weaver, Harold, -1926

Harold Baillie Weaver WIKIDATA

Thomas, George C. (George Clifford), 1839-1909

George C. Thomas WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Four front flyleaves, first paper, second and third modern parchment, fourth medieval parchment; three end flyleaves, first and second modern parchment, last paper
Binding: German red morocco with gilt-tooled borders and two gilt clasps, arms of the Elector of Bavaria (1770-80) on the upper and lower covers, stenciled edges, gilt title Biblia sacra B. Hieronymi, Ms. Sec. XIII, and initials B.P. (Bibliotheca Palatina) on the spine, 18th century; crest and motto (Nobilis Ira) of William Stuart of Aldenham Abbey added above the arms of the Elector of...
Layout: Written in two columns of fifty-two lines; marginal notations in several hands; rubricator's instructions visible in some margins; written area: 280 x 170 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Approximately eighty historiated initials, mostly at book divisions; approximately ninety-five illuminated and/or painted initials, most six or seven lines in height, mostly at prologue divisions; historiated and illuminated initials through Ecclesiasticus (through fol. 249r) are by a French illuminator, those from Isaiah onward (from fol. 263v) are by an Italian illuminator, and...
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. 2062, no. 9
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), pp. 44-45, no. 37.
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. 34-35, cat. no. 5.
Provenance: Bibliotheca Palatina, Mannheim, Germany, circa 1770 (coat of arms, covers); Joseph Lilly (bookseller), London, before 1840; bought June 1840 by William Stewart of Aldenham Abbey, Hertfordshire, and Tempsford Hall (crest, front cover; bookplate from Tempsford Hall Library, Case C, Shelf ), died 1874; sale, Christie's, London, March 6, 1895, lot 144 (under name Stuart); Harold...

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Bible

Historiated initials

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

French (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_037.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_037/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia