Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 66

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4424

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 66

Title:

Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends)

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Place:

Ferrara, Italy

Ferrara TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+175+ii; 256 x 176 mm bound to 260 x 186 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper flyleaves
Binding: Late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century, mottled calf, blind tooled and stamped concentric panel design, panels on spine tooled and stamped in gold, labeled TULLII EPIST: FAMIL: MSS
Layout: One column of thirty-one lines, ruled in hard-point; written area: 160 x 110 mm
Script: Humanistic cursive
Script: Scribe: Gregorius de Martinellis de Buccassolo
Decoration: One large eight-line white vine-scroll initial with partial border and space for coat of arms decorated with white vine-scroll (fol. 1r); illuminated initials at beginning of each book (fols. 1r, 14r, 22v, 33r, 43r, 56r, 67v, 78r, 82v, 98v, 113v, 123r, 134v, 153v, 158r, 168r); alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; rubrication, running book numbers in upper margin...
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. 2057, no. 171.
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. 73, no. 66.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 26.
Provenance: Sold by Pickering & Chatto, London, to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1923 (receipt inside back cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Friendship

White-vine lettering

Colophons

humanistic scripts

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

manicules

Italy

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_066.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_066/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia