Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 154

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DS ID:

DS4504

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 154

Title:

Tobias (History of Tobias)

Author:

Matthew, of Vendôme, approximately 1130-

Matthew of Vendôme WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

1300-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+40+i; 207 x 146 mm bound to 215 x 148 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper flyleaves
Binding: Modern wooden boards; sheep spine damaged at head
Layout: One column of twenty-eight lines, prickings visible; written area: 140 x 90 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Blank spaces with guide letters for capitals
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. 2052, no. 148.
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), pp. 166-67, no. 154.
Provenance: Unidentified English armorial bookplate with the motto, in Deo confide, on front flyleaf; Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 23, 1906, no. 439; to Maggs; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Literature

Allegory

biblical

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_154.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_154/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia