Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 149

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DS ID:

DS4500

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 149

Title:

Libellus beati misericordes (A collection of excerpts from the latin fathers)

Place:

Belgium

Belgium TGN

Date:

1400-1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+88+i; 152 x 103 mm bound to 160 x 114 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Henry, R.

René Henry WIKIDATA

Kelker, Rudolph Frederick

Rudolph Frederick Kelker WIKIDATA

Carthusians of Enghien

Herne Charterhouse WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Eighteenth-century red-brown morocco (Belgian?) with a dolphin crest
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of twenty-one lines; pricking evident; written area: 114 x 80 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One- and two-line initials in red throughout; rubrication throughout
Provenance: Written for Carthusian use in the archdiocese of Cambrai, now north of France; early ownership inscription of the Carthusians of Enghien, in Hainaut; R. Henry; Rudolph Frederick Kelker, Harrisburg, PA: his sale, Henkels, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 43; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia...

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Christianity

Biographies

History

Fifteenth century

Belgium

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_149.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_149/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia