Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 42

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DS ID:

DS4406

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 42

Title:

Bible, glossed Mark

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1140-1160

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+119+ii; 225 x 140 mm bound to 235 x 160 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Ellis, John Henry, 1839 or 1840-1912

John Henry Ellis WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Four front flyleaves, two paper followed by two parchment; two back flyleaves, paper
Binding: Nineteenth-century English leather, blind-tooled, marbled endpapers, gold-stamped on spine EVANGEL. SANCTI MARCI.
Layout: Main text written in one column of seventeen lines, ruled in drypoint with double vertical bounding lines; space for gloss on either side of text ruled in lead as needed; some prickings visible; text and gloss written above top line; written area: 148 x 53 mm (main text), 155 x 125 mm (gloss)
Script: Italian Protogothic
Decoration: Spaces for two large initials (fols. 1r, 4v) and small initials beginning chapters left unfilled
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. 2028, no. 16.
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. 49, no. 42.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 5.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Rev. John Henry Ellis; his sale London, Sotheby's, June 30, 1913, no. 68, to Maggs; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Twelfth century

biblical

Sacred works

Bible. Gospels

Fathers of the church

Gothic (Medieval)

Italian (culture or style)

Theology

Italy

glosses (annotations)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_042.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_042/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia