Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 148

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4499

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 148

Title:

Epistolary

Artist:

Libri, Girolamo dai, 1474-1555

Girolamo dai Libri WIKIDATA

Place:

Verona, Italy

Verona TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+75+iii; 300 x 222 mm bound to 315 x 230 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Walker, John

John Walker WIKIDATA

Spence, C.J.

C.J. Spence WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of twenty-seven lines; written area: 196 x 150 mm
Script: Gothic-textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Twelve historiated initials; twenty-seven illuminated initials in red, blue, green; three- and two-line initials in red or blue with foliate decoration and pen-flourishing; capitals touched up in yellow
Provenance: John Walker of Bradley sold to R.S.; C.J. Spence sale (London, 5 November 1906, n. 310) to Ellis (Cat. 112, 1906, n. 571); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; a manuscript note in the front reads: "This Book was the property of John Walker of Bradley at one time & I bought it of him through Geo...

Keyword:

Italy

Christianity

Liturgics

Sixteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_148.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_148/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia