Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 139

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DS ID:

DS4493

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 139

Title:

Excerpts from De viris illustribus (On Famous Men); Excerpts from the Supplementum chronicarum; Excerpts from the Vita Henrici Quinti (Life of Henry V); Excerpts from works on Venice; Rumores e venetiis allati...

Author:

Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520

Giacomo Filippo Foresti WIKIDATA

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Titus Livius of Forli

Tito Livio Frulovisi WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 19+i; 252 x 190 mm bound to 263 x 200 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Mayner, Joseph

Joseph Mayner WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

This text is bound at the end of an incunabulum; Wolf states: "these manuscript notes are bound after a copy of Robert Gaguin's Compendium super Francorum gestis, printed at Paris in 1500."
Binding: Contemporary calf, in cloth case (De Ricci: Late sixteenth-century English calf); boards detached
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead point; one column of 34-50 lines; written area: 205 x 140 mm
Script: Anglicana
Decoration: One eleven-line initial in red; two-line initials in red; blank spaces left for initials
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), pp. 2059-60, no. 187.
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. 153-54, no. 139.
Provenance: Owned by Joseph Mayner of Exeter College, ca. 1600; Duke of Suffolk (not traced in his sales); sold by Rodd to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1845, no. 11580 (not traced in his sales); London sale, no. 674; English bookseller's catalogue, no. 307; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

chronicles

English (culture or style)

England

Sixteenth century

History

Miscellanea

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_139.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_139/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia