Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 57

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4419

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 57

Title:

Carmen in honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+12+iii; 163 x 110 mm bound to 177 x 130 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Flachmann, Bartholdus and Flachmann, Johann

Bartholdus and Johann Flachmann WIKIDATA

Rosenthal, L.

Ludwig Rosenthal WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

The leaves of this manuscript fragment were used as part of the binding in a book belonging to Bartholdus and Johann Flachmann in 1491, as identified by the inscription: "Iste liber p[er]tin[et] bartoldo flachma[n] Alio [autem?] no[m]in]e peymis, Iste liber usum d[omi]no bartoldi flachma[n] Alio [autem?] no[m]i[n]e peyms An[n]o d[omi]ni M cccc lxxxxi,"(fol. 9v-10r) and "Johan[n]es flachma[n...
Binding: Three-quarter green leather with marbled-paper sides "Fragmentum Carminis In Honorem B.M.V. MS. XIII. Cent." on the spine
Layout: Some evidence of pricking (fols. 1, 3, 9), but folios were formerly used as binding material and have been cropped at variable sizes; written in long lines; twenty-five lines; written area: approximately 145 x 80 mm
Script: Caroline minuscule
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. 2034, no. 53.
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. 63, no. 57.
Provenance: Bartholdus and Johann Flachmann, 1491; L. Rosenthal, cat. 120, 1910, no. 194; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Literature

German (culture, style, period)

Binding waste

Germany

fragments (object portions)

Caroline minuscule

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_057.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_057/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia