Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 83

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4437

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 83

Title:

Historia belli civilis inter Caesarem et Pompeium

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+30+ii; 165 x 110 mm bound to 170 x 120 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Saltariellus, Lodovicus

Lodovicus Saltariellus WIKIDATA

Sneyd, Walter

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Vellum, in cloth case
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead, twenty-eight lines; written area: 95 x 70 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Blank spaces for two-line initials throughout, titles in red throughout; ownership inscriptions fol. 30v
Provenance: Owned by Lodovicus Saltariellus circa 1600; sold by Abate Matteo Canonici to Reverend Walter Sneyd in 1835 (Cat., 1837, p. 14, no. 95); his sale, London, 1903, no. 393, to Dobell; Sale, Anderson Galleries, no. 186; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Gothic (Medieval)

Italian (culture or style)

History

Italy

Fifteenth century

Prose literature

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_083.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_083/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia