Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 159

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4508

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 159

Title:

Fragment of a Missal

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1200-1215

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 10; 294 x 217 mm bound to 317 x 237 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Hodgkin, John Eliot

John Eliot Hodgkin WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Half brown morocco over modern wooden boards, detached from the textblock
Layout: One column of twenty-three lines; prickings visible
Script: Protogothic
Decoration: Vere Dignum monogram in red; capitals, underlining, and rubrication in red
Provenance: In use at a conventual church in Essen, Germany; sold by Nutt (cat. No. 3659) to J. Eliot Hodgkin; his sale, Sotheby's, London, May 12, 1914, no. 816; to Maggs; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

German (culture, style, period)

Missals

Christianity

Germany

Gothic (Medieval)

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_159.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_159/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia