Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 72
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4429
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 72
- Title:
- Compendium historiae in genealogia christi (Historical compendium of the genealogy of Christ), with a treatise on the candelabrum
- Peter, of Poitiers, approximately 1130-1205
- Place:
- Paris?, France
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 2934 x 397 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Bernardus, de Pedio
Bonaventure, E. F.
Moynan, Thomas H.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Binding: Parchment roll fastened on two wooden rollers
Layout: Horizontals ruled in lead for text throughout; verticals ruled as needed to create columns of text around diagrams
Script: Gothic--textualis
Script: Scribe: Petrus de Bugino
Decoration: Genealogical diagram with lines in red and blue, and circles, some filled with geometric ornaments, in red; title in alternating red and blue letters at top of roll, Origo [Chr]isti et Marie per hystoriam Biblie; pen drawings in red ink of the candelabrum (marked with the names of Noah, Daniel, and Job), Noah's ark, and the Tower of Babel (Membrane 1 Side 1); capitals and paragraph...
Provenance: Bernardus de Pedio, inserted into colophon over original owner's name, fifteenth century; E. F. Bonaventure; Thomas H. Moynan, New York City; his library sold through Anderson Galleries, June 14, 1920, no. 630; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_072.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_072/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
