Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 138

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DS ID:

DS4492

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 138

Title:

Historia hierosolymitana (History of Jerusalem)

Author:

Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240

Jacques de Vitry WIKIDATA

Place:

Milan, Italy

Milan TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+139+i; 213 x 152 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Count Archinto, of Milan

Carlo Archinto, 2nd Marquess of Parona, 3rd Count of Trainate WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Flyleaves are eighteenth-century parchment
Flyleaves foliated as f. 1 and f. 141
Binding: Eighteenth-century green vellum; gilt spine; spine label "HISTORIA IEROSOLIMITANA"; edges sprinkled with red; joints cracked, front joint almost completely broken
Layout: One column of twenty-eight lines, ruled in hard point and lead with double vertical bounding lines; lacking first leaf of text (between extant fols. 5 and 6); written area: 122 x 75 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Scribe: Johannes de Camenago
Decoration: Three-line initials in red with purple flourishes or blue with red flourishes at the beginning of each chapter; 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. 2059, no. 185.
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. 151-152, no. 138.
Related resource: Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Iter Italicum, Volume 5 (Brill, 1990), p. 366, ms. 138.
Related resource: Zaggia, Massimo, "Copisti e committenti di codici a Milano nella prima meta del Quarttrocento," Libri & Documenti 21, no. 3 (1995), p. 30.
Provenance: Count Archinto, of Milan (bookplate with "Archineata" on the scroll at the top, "Count Archinti" in pencil below, inside front cover); Thomas Phillipps, MS 24276 (number in ink, fol. 1r); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

humanistic scripts

Italian (culture or style)

History

Italy

Fifteenth century

Jewish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_138.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_138/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia