Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 151

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4502

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 151

Title:

Religious manual

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+101+i; 142 x 105 mm bound to 149 x 103 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Dominican Nunnery Holy Cross (Asperg, Wurtemberg)

Dominican Nunnery Holy Cross WIKIDATA

Hawkins, Rush C

Rush Hawkins WIKIDATA

Birch & Son

Birch & Son WIKIDATA

Gilbert, W. J

W. J. Gilbert WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Original blind stamped calf over wooden boards, with unusual stamps of a running hound and the evangelical lion of Saint Mark on the top cover, with clasp, in maroon morocco case
Layout: One added leaf in front, eleven at the end; some musical notation on 4 occasionally 5 line staves; 1 column of 16 lines; prickings visible on some folios
Script: Gothic
Decoration: Capitals in red and blue; musical staves and rubrication in red
Provenance: Belonged to a Dominican nunnery of the Holy Cross, possibly at Asperg, Württemberg; note dated 1498 concerning two nuns: Maria Holtzschüchin and Agnes Rüdolfin; note dated 1591 by the nunnery's confessor, Fr. Mathias Dillinganus, and another early 17th century note by his successor, Fr. R. Han; later in a South German nunnery; Rush C. Hawkins sale, New York, March 21, 1887, no...

Keyword:

Musical notation

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Miscellanea

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_151.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_151/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia