Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 40

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4405

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 40

Title:

Bible

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

1300-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+142+iii; 147 x 103 mm bound to 155 x 108 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Fenwick, Thomas Fitzroy Phillipps, 1856-1938

Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Eighteenth-century French brown calf with gilt dentelles and red-marbled endpapers; mottled edges on leaves
Layout: Two columns of thirty-nine lines; hard point ruling, prickings visible; written area: 147 x 103 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a
Decoration: Red-ink scroll-work initials throughout; place left for an illuminated initial at the beginning of Matthew
Provenance: Unidentified Jesuit College, 1767; Sold by Thomas Thorpe (Cat. 1836, no. 1268) to Sir Thomas Phillipps; T. FitzRoy Fenwick, 1891; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

biblical

Bible

Christianity

Sacred works

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

decorated initials

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_040.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_040/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia