Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 156

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DS ID:

DS4505

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 156

Title:

Fragment of a Menologium

Author:

John Chrysostom, Saint, -407

John Chrysostom WIKIDATA

Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403

Epiphanius of Salamis WIKIDATA

Gregorius Antiochenus

Grigorios of Antioch WIKIDATA

Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint

Gregory of Nazianzus WIKIDATA

Place:

Greece

Greece TGN

Date:

1000-1199

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+42+iii; 345 x 255 mm bound to 355 x 280 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Blenheim Palace (England). Sunderland Library

Blenheim Palace WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Early nineteenth-century English brown morocco; authors and date (sec. XI) in gilt on spine; wooden boards; marbled pastedowns and endleaves
Layout: Written in two columns of thirty-eight lines; frame-ruled in hard point, with double vertical bounding lines; pricking visible; written area: 255 x 190 mm
Script: Greek Minuscule
Decoration: Rubrication and three- to five-line initials in red at the beginning of each numbered section; one-line initials in red at left margin of each column throughout
Provenance: Dukes of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Sunderland Library sale, London, April 17, 1882, II, no. 2820; to Ridler; Sale, Anderson Galleries, Dec. 9, 1929, no. 347; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Greece

Twelfth century

Ancient Greek (culture or style)

Sermons

Eleventh century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_156.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_156/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia