Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 44

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DS ID:

DS4408

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 44

Title:

Bible, Epistles

Place:

Bruges?, Belgium

Bruges TGN

Date:

1480-1490

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+180+ii; 140 x 88 mm bound to 146 x 97 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Williams, Theodore, 1785-1875

Theodore Williams WIKIDATA

Gilbert, W. J.

W. J. Gilbert WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco by Charles Lewis (died 1836) with gilt insignias of the Rev. T. Williams on front and back comers, gilt edges; stamped in gold on spine: S. PAULI EPISTOLAE. CODEX VETUST. SUPRA MEMBRANIS
Layout: One column of twenty-two lines; lead-point ruling; written area: 98 x 60 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: One historiated initial with Saint Paul (fol. 1r); one six-line puzzle initial in red and blue (fol. 5v); one-line to five-line red or blue initials throughout; rubrication in red
Provenance: Rev. T. Williams, sold (London, 1827, no. 656) to Cochran (cat. 1829, no. 13); D.S. Ker sale (London, Feb. 1. 1848, II, no. 1115); sold at Sotheby's (London, ca. 1900); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale (Philadelphia, 7 June 1909, no. 249); 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

Historiated initials

Fifteenth century

Belgium

decorated initials

Dutch (culture or style)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_044.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_044/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia