Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 38

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4403

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 38

Title:

Bible

Place:

Siena?, Italy

Siena TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+ 532+iii; 228 x 165 mm bound to 240 x 185 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Butler, Charles

Charles Butler WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Seventeenth-century French brown calf with gilt pomegranate ornamentation in corners and on spine, edges of leaves mottled in red and brown; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA
Layout: Two columns of forty-nine lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 148 x 95 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Seventy-two historiated initials in gold; several initials have been cut out (for example, fols. 222v, 236v, 363v, 393v, 441r, 455v, 457v, 486v); marginal extensions; penwork tracery in red and blue; running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters; rubrication in red; very few manicules (fol. 474v)
Provenance: Formerly held in the library of the Franciscan Friars Minor of Verdun (eighteenth-century inscription, "Ex Bibliotheca ff. Minimoru[m] Virdin," fol. 1r); No. 503 in an early English sale catalog; Charles Butler sale (London, 18 July 1921, no. 415) to Davis and Orioli; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

biblical

Bible

Sacred works

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

Historiated initials

Gothic (Medieval)

Theology

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_038.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_038/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia