Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 53
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4417
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 53
- Title:
- Biography of Petrarch; Glosse de libris meteororum (Gloss on the Book of Meteors); Glosse de libris meteororum IV (Gloss on the Book of Meteors IV)
- Breton, John le, -1275
Adam, of Buckfield, approximately 1220-approximately 1294
Aristotle
John, de Seccheville, active 13th century
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1250-1280
- Language:
- Latin; Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+85+ii; 340 x 240 mm bound to 336 x 244 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Linterno, Marchese
Certosa di Garegnano (Milan, Italy)
Visconti di Modrone, C., Duke
Bruschetti, Giuseppe
Schiepati, Gaetano
Arrigoni, Luigi
Rosenthal, Jacques
Dawson
Leighton
Maggs Bros.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Texts were identified by J. R. Long in 1990; see his article for an explanation of the authorship of the texts and his reattribution and for an explanation of how Britton was wrongly identified as the author by De Ricci
Date of manuscript established by James P. Reilly, Jr.
False Petrarchian bookplate contains the motto "Neutro sed ad interna Linterni ornamenta" and the inscription "Fragmentum Bibliothecae Petrarchae"
Binding: Re-used parchment over wooden boards; the material is reused from an older, two-columned manuscript and still shows traces of writing; turn ins and front flyleaf also from recycled material; "PHILOSOPHICAE DISCUSSIONES" written in ink on spine
Layout: Two columns of sixty-five to seventy-nine lines, lead point ruling; corrections and later notes in margins; written area: 260 x 157 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a
Decoration: Blank spaces for illuminated initials at chapter headings
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. 2056, no. 167.
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), pp. 59-60. no. 53.
Related resource: Ullman, Berthold L., "Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States," Italia medioevale e umanistica 5 (1962), p. 462, no. 73 (article pp. 443-475).
Related resource: Dutschke, Dennis, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova: Antenore, 1986).
Related resource: Long, R. James, "Adam of Buckfield and John Sackville: Some Notes on Philadelphia Free Library MS Lewis European 53," Traditio 45 (1989-1990): 364-367.
Related resource: Long, R. James, Adam of Bockenfield, Glossae super De vegetabilibus et plantis: A Critical Edition with Introduction (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013).
Provenance: Linterno collection, Milan (bought at Padua, 1640); Carthusians of Garegnano, near Milan (ca. 1700); Duca V. Visconti Modrone, Milan (1779); Giuseppe Bruschetti, Milan (1834); Gaetano Schiepati, Milan (1865); Luigi Arrigoni, Milan (1883); sold by J. Rosenthal at Sotheby (April 12, 1889, no. 550) to Dawson; sale by Sotheby (November 23, 1908, no. 539) to Leighton; Maggs (Cat. 246... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_053.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_053/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
