Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 39

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4404

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 39

Title:

Bible

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1240-1260

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+399+iv; 175 x 115 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Labitte, Alphonse, 1853-

Alphonse Labitte WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Armorial bookplate and printed catalog entry pasted onto inside of front cover
Entry from Henry Young and Sons' Catalogue of Books pasted inside back cover
Binding: Nineteenth-century (circa 1814-1830) black morocco, gilt with clasps and blind tooling with purple watered-silk paste-downs, by R. Simier with his ticket on front endpaper: "Simier Relieure du Roi, Rue St. Honore No. 152, à Paris"; stamped on spine in gold: "BIBLIA LATINA MANV-SCRIP TA"
Layout: Two columns of fifty-five lines; hard point ruling; written area: 107 x 72 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Sixteen historiated initials; decorated and pen-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. 10.
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. 47, no. 39.
Related resource: de Hamel, Christopher. The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon Press, 2001), p. 119.
Provenance: Alphonse Labitte (1853-?); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Musical notation

biblical

Bible

Christianity

Sacred works

Historiated initials

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_039.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_039/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia