Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 48

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DS ID:

DS4412

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 48

Title:

Liber primus distinctionum super decretales

Author:

Bohic, Henri, 1310-approximately 1390

Henri Bohic WIKIDATA

Place:

Amberg, Bavaria, Germany

Amberg TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+306; 301 x 207 mm bound to 310 x 233 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Original pigskin over wooden boards, remains of clasps, in cloth case
Layout: One column of 36-39 lines; frame-ruled with no visible ruling; written area: 206 x 135 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Two large penwork initials in red and green with marginal extensions (fol. 1r and fol. 3r), the first letter A with two small dragons; initials, underlining, rubrication, and capitals touched up in red
Provenance: Made in Amberg, Bavaria, Dec. 15, 1420; sale, Germany, Jan. 19, 1818, no. 66; sale, Sotheby's, ca. 1880 ?; Viscount Avonmere of Belle Isle, Roscrea; Lord Portarlington, his sale; Townley Searle, Dublin; Sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Jan. 30, 1923, no. 431; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

textura (Gothic script)

Law

Christianity

Germany

Commentaries

Paper

binding (textile material)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_048.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_048/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia