Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 153

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4503

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 153

Title:

Fragment of a Martyrology

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 30; bound to 257 x 160 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930

Wilfrid Voynich WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Fragment begins with the 22nd of February and runs to the 15th of September
Folios are severely damaged in outer margins; extant folios are of variable sizes
The collation is uncertain; folios 9 and 16 are now single but may once have been conjoined, in which case the collation formula would be 1-3 (8), 4 (6)
Binding: Italian vellum
Layout: Frame-ruled in hard point; one column of twenty-nine lines; outer margins of folios damaged
Script: Three- and four-line capitals in red throughout; one large decorated initial in red (fol. 29v)
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. 2058, no. 182.
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. 166, no. 153 (+ Supplement).
Related resource: Lattanzi, Angela Daneu. "Di un manoscritto miniato esequito a Palermo nel terzo quarto del sec. XII e d'alcuni altri manoscritti, con osservazioni sulla scrittura siciliana pregotica." Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia 32, nos. 4 & 5 (1964): 1-24. See p. 19 and fig. 23 (fol. 29v).
Provenance: Obtained from W. M. Voynich by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

fragments (object portions)

Italian (culture or style)

Theology

Italy

Prayers and devotions

Accounts

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_153.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_153/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia