Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 81

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DS ID:

DS4435

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 81

Title:

Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome); Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers)

Author:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Augustine of Hippo WIKIDATA

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

Jerome WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+160+i; 329 x 220 bound to 345 x 244; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Abezier, Johann

Johannes Abezier WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Written by order of Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia in Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24)
Binding: Seventeenth-century Belgian or French calf
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead hard point in one column of 32 lines; prickings extant; written area: 213 x 150 mm
Script: Gothic textualis
Decoration: Six-line and two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue with puzzle and foliate design throughout; manicules and rubrication 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. 118.
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), pp. 88-89, no. 81.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 23.
Related resource: Schmidt, Peter Lebrecht. "Eine Cicero-Handschrift des Ermländischen Bischofs Johannes Abeczier." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Bd. 109 (1966): 170-184.
Provenance: Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia, Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24); in France by ca. 1800; bought by the Earl of Ashburnham in 1872; his sale, London, 1899, no. 160 to Leighton for George Dunn; his sale, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 678; to Young; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Fathers of the church

Gothic (Medieval)

Theology

Fifteenth century

decorated initials

Accounts

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_081.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_081/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia