Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 73
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4430
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 73
- Title:
- Gradual
- Place:
- Bologna?, Italy
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 153+i; 565 x 392 mm bound to 606 x 415 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Richardson, Thomas F.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Some flaking
Marginal annotations in various near-contemporary and later hands
Parchment repairs using fragments of earlier manuscripts
Original text obscured by parchment pastedowns with later script
Binding: Diced Russia over wooden boards; brass bosses and corner ornaments; remains of clasps
Layout: One column of seven lines with four-line staves in red ink with musical notation; lead ruled; written area: 482 x 276 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Thirteen historiated initials; forty-six illuminated initials; numerous decorated initials in red, blue, and black ink with pen-work decoration
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. 2033, no. 48.
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. 79, no. 73.
Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, his sale, 1919, no. 48; 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_073.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_073/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
