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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4407

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 43

Title:

Biblical commentary

Bible commentary

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349

Nicholas of Lyra WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+147+ii; 313 x 210 mm bound to 325 x 225 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

de Montefegatesio, Joachim Guerrinus

Joachim Guerrinus de Montefegatesio WIKIDATA

Wright, John

John Wright WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

May be from the same scriptorium as Lewis E 47 and 188; all three are on laid paper with the watermark of a bull's head surmounted by a rose; scripts are similar and decorated initials are identical in style; all are ruled in brown ink for columns, but not for lines
The remains of an insect are present in the right outer margin of fol. 113.
Binding: Nineteenth-century German black calf with blind-tooled lattice pattern and stamps of lyres; pink paper pastedowns and endpapers; blind stamps of a crown along the spine; stamped in gold on spine: "EPISTOLAE PAULI CUM GLOSSA [LY]RA."
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink in two columns of 42-45 lines, catena format with scriptural excerpts underlined in red; running headings in red, upper center margin; written area: 240 x 155 mm
Script: Hybrida
Decoration: One large pen-flourished initial; smaller initials in red; manicules in red
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. 2048, no. 130.
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. 50, no. 43.
Provenance: Brother Joachim Guerrinus de Montefegatesio, O.S.F., Winsted, Conn. Feb. 1873, (former librarian of Saint Bonaventura College, Saint Bonaventure, N.Y.), Rev. John Wright; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Inscription of the verso of the last leaf: "Ad usum Fratris Joachim Guerrini de Montfegatesio...

Keyword:

Watermarks

Fourteenth century

Christianity

Germany

binding (textile material)

Fifteenth century

Paper

Commentaries

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia