Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 69

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DS ID:

DS4426

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 69

Title:

Chart of Consanguinity; Schwabenspiegel Landrecht (Common Law of the Swabians)

Place:

Bavaria?, Germany

Bavaria TGN

Date:

1385-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Middle High German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+184+i; 310 x 214 mm bound to 317 x 220 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Wright, Harrison

Harrison Wright WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Becker identifies the script as bâtarde
Binding: 19th century paper boards
Layout: One column of twenty-two to twenty-eight lines; unlined; frame-ruled in light-brown ink; written area: 205 x 123 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Large initial in brown and red with penwork tracery (fol. 1r); red two- and three-line initials throughout; headings touched up in red
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. 2055, no. 163.
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. 75, no. 69 (+ Supplement).
Related resource: Hans-Jürgen Becker. "Eine unbekannte Handschrift des Schwaben- und Augsburger Sachsenspiegels." Zietschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteiling 88 (1971): 190-197
Provenance: Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA; his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 238; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Law

German (culture, style, period)

documents (object genre)

Germany

Gothic (Medieval)

History

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_069.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_069/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia