Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 65
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4423
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 65
- Title:
- Constitutiones clementinae (Clementine constitutions)
- Clement V, Pope, approximately 1260-1314
Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348
John XXII, Pope, -1334
- Place:
- Southern France?
Italy?
- Date:
- 1385-1415
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+196+i; 165 x 115 mm bound to 169 x 124 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515
Anne, of Brittany, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1476-1514
G. Michelmore & Co.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Book is in multiple hands; textualis with rotunda characteristics may indicate a southern French or Italian place of production
Binding: Early sixteenth-century French calf, flush to text block, blind stamped with the crowned fleur-de-lis of Louis XII of France and the crowned ermine of his wife, Anne of Brittany; remnants of holes for clasps; restored and rebacked
Layout: Two columns of forty-three lines for gloss, number of lines for main text varies; some prickings visible; ruled in lead; red running titles throughout; written area: 120 x 87 mm for gloss, 43 mm width for central text with varying height
Script: Gothic--textualis
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Three illuminated initials on first page; red and blue initials and paragraph markers throughout
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. 2054, no. 157.
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. 71-72, no. 65.
Related resource: Cashion, Debra Taylor, "Cataloging Medieval Manuscripts, from Beasts to Bytes," Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 5, no. 2 (Fall 2016): p. 148 (article pp. 135-159).
Provenance: From the library of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany ?; sale by Anderson (New York, 6 Dec. 1920, no. 108) to G. Michelmore, resold for him by the American Art Association (New York, 30 Jan. 1923, no. 432) to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; cover stamped with the blind stamped with the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_065.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_065/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
