Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 142

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DS ID:

DS4495

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 142

Title:

Repertorium juris civilis (Catalog of Civil Law)

Author:

Milis, Joannes Nicolaus, active 15th century

Johannes Milis WIKIDATA

Place:

Neuberg, Germany

Neuberg TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 348; 300 x 215 mm bound to 304 x 226 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Hertzberger, Menno

Menno Hertzberger WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Stamp with number "214" affixed to spine
Folios 11 and 20 are singletons, but are joined together using a paper guard
Folios 341 and 348 are singletons, but joined together using a paper guard
Binding: Original half calf over wooden boards, with original clasps and chain fastened to the upper edge of the back cover; "REPERTORIUM ABSENTI" is written in ink across the top of the front cover
Layout: Written area: 180 x 125 mm; One column of forty lines, lead point ruling
Script: Rotunda
Script: Scribe: Georgius of Neuberg
Decoration: Large illuminated initial and floral extension; illuminated initials with extensions throughout, marginal decoration and figures throughout; paint or varnish has been applied to the margin of fol. 1r, giving the page a sheen
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. 2054, no. 159.
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. 156-7, no. 142, illus. of plate between pp. 156 and 157.
Provenance: Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Law

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

illuminations (paintings)

Paper

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_142.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_142/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia