Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 78

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DS ID:

DS4433

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 78

Title:

Liturgical text; Manipulus curatorum (Handbook for priests)

Author:

Guido, de Monte Rocherii, active 14th century

Guido de Monte Rochen WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany?

Germany TGN

Date:

1400-1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

1100-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+155+i; 209 x 138 mm bound to 216 x 140 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:

The spine has been redone and the original backbone is in the case
Parchment guards in the center of every quire
Binding: Original wooden boards and stamped leather (stars, rosettes, fleurs-de-lys, lions rampant, bulls), backed with leaves of a twelfth-century liturgical manuscript; original vellum label on top cover; remains of clasp, in cloth case
Layout: One column of thirty-three lines; rubriction and two- and three-line initials in red; drypoint frame-ruled; written area: 153 x 96 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Initials, paragraph marks, rubrication 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. 2051, no. 141.
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. 85, no. 78.
Provenance: Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA, his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 239; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; the name of Harrison Wright is inscribed on the front with a date of 1869

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Twelfth century

Christianity

Germany

Theology

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_078.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_078/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia