Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 54

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DS ID:

DS4418

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 54

Title:

De primo bello punico (On the first Punic War)

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Artist:

Illuminator, Master of the Vitae Imperatorum, active 1402-1459

Master of the Vitae Imperatorum WIKIDATA

Place:

Milan?, Italy

Milan TGN

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+78+i; 217 x 148 mm bound to 227 x 158 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Richardson, Thomas

Thomas Richardson WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Original brown calf over wooden boards; stamped with arabesques and emblems of the Paschal lamb; back repaired
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of twenty-nine lines; written area: 126 x 75 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Scribe: Milano Borro
Decoration: One eight-line decorated initial with full inhabited border; two large illuminated initials; red and blue three-line initials throughout; some marginalia
Provenance: Written for Giovanni-Maria Viscount of Sforza, Duke of Milan ?; Trivulzio-Belgioioso-Trotti Collection, Milan, sold (1885) to Hoepli; sale by Leavitt, New York, (1888); Thomas Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (obtained 1919); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes written in pencil by Lewis on inside of front...

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Colophons

humanistic scripts

Italian (culture or style)

Fifteenth century

Italy

History

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_054.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_054/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia