Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 70

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4427

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 70

Title:

Letter to Damasus on the death of Saint Jerome

Author:

Eusebius, of Cremona, Saint

Eusebius of Cremona WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+108; 140 x 95 mm bound to 153 x 110 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Breslauer, Martin, 1871-1940

Martin Breslauer WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Number "9" on bottom right of fol. 84v
Back flyleaf excised along with the last two leaves, which would have been blank in the original
Binding: Old calf over original (?) wooden boards, blind stamped decoration, remains of metal clasps and leather straps, leather of spine has been repaired, gilded edges; pastedowns and front flyleaf are rules in double columns
Layout: One column of eighteen lines; lead point ruling; spaces left blank for small initials on three pages, filled in by a later hand; written area: 88 x 55 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: One large illuminated initial with foliate extensions; marginal decoration added by a later hand; occasional illuminated and decorated initials 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. 2046, no. 120.
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. 76, no. 70.
Provenance: German booksellers catalog entry pasted onto pastedown of the back cover; in pencil on pasted entry in the hand of Lewis, "Martin Breslauer;" printed number "34" ? pasted onto spine; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

inhabited initials

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

humanistic scripts

Hagiography

Theology

History

Italy

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_070.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_070/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia