Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 68

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DS ID:

DS4425

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 68

Title:

Chronica summorum pontificum et imperatorum romanorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors)

Author:

Continuator of Martin of Troppau

Continuator of Martin of Troppau WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+25+ii; 317 x 210 mm bound to 320 x 215 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Modern English half brown morocco (Wolf: 'levant')
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of variable lines ranging from twenty to sixty; names are contained in circles in the center of the two columns; written area: 260-70 x 160 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: One four-line initial in red; rubrication throughout; names and circles in red; marginalia throughout; dates given in red upper corner recto
Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillips (early purchase, but not identifiable in his sale catalogues); Davis & Orioli, Cat. 19, June 1917, n. 3; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

chronicles

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Gothic (Medieval)

History

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_068.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_068/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia