Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 137

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4491

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 137

Title:

Sententiae (Sentences)

Author:

Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636

Isidore of Seville WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

1100-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+154+ii; 199 x 146 mm bound to 205 x 162 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: 19th-century brown morocco with blind stamped covers by Riviere, gilt edges. S. YSIDORI LIBRI TRES SENTENTIARUM CODEX M. S. IN MEMBRANIS S.AEC. XII stamped in gold on spine.
Layout: Written area: 157 x 105 mm, prickings visible on some leaves; One column of twenty-one of lines, hard point ruling; two decorated initials; two-, three-, and five-line red initials throughout; chapter numbers and titles in red throughout; marginal notes and corrections in a contemporary hand
Script: Caroline Minuscule
Decoration: Decorated initials and rubrication throughout; several manicules
Provenance: J. and J. Leighton (booksellers), London; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, purchased July 28, 1920; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Printed description from catalog of J. and J. Leighton tipped onto front flyleaf; "Bound by Riviere" stamped in inside front cover

Keyword:

Twelfth century

Christianity

Spain

Fathers of the church

Caroline minuscule

Theology

manicules

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_137.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_137/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia