Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 144
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4497
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 144
- Title:
- Fragment of a lectionary
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- 1100-1199
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+24+i; 334x239 bound to 344x247; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- The first quire in the fragment is numbered IIII, so it appears that three quires are missing from the beginning of the fragment
Folio 24 contains unidentified text, is bound through the first column, and the text on the verso is written upside-down
Binding: German marbled paper boards, circa 1800
Layout: Two columns of forty-four lines; one half leaf of an unrelated manuscript bound in; prickings visible; written area: 227x165
Script: Gothic
Decoration: Initials in red and green with penwork foliate extensions; 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. 2029, no. 144.
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. 158, no. 144.
Provenance: Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 21; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 406; his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 266, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_144.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_144/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
