Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 161
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4510
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 161
- Title:
- Missal
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- 1366-1400
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 264; 360 x 263 mm bound to 383 x 285 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Richardson, Thomas F.
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- The small miniature in the lower margin of fol. 128v, almost a duplicate of a larger version of the Crucifixion on the previous folio, was placed there for the priest to kiss as part of the celebration of the Eucharist; one often finds two images of the Crucifixion at the Canon of the Mass so that the larger, more beautiful miniature would be preserved from the wear of repeated kissing
Paint in small miniature on 128v is severely worn; several tears in parchment have been sewn with thread
Structure of first and last quires unclear, two stubs between fol. 6 and fol. 7 and stubs conjoined with fols. 263 and 264 appear to be bound into the back inside cover
Binding: Contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards, a circular stamp with a flowering pot with lozenge shaped compartments on the sides, rebacked, with clasps. [Per Pfändtner, stamps are identical to those of a Nuremberg Augustinian convent datable from 1501 to 1526] Inside the front cover is a Post-It note reading, "T. F. Richardson Lectionary German 14th Century or early 15th. 261...
Layout: Written area 256 x 167 mm, ink ruling, pricking visible; two columns of twenty-five to thirty-four lines; first leaf consists of a single column of thirty-two lines; leaves are foliated in upper margins with alphabetical letters and numerals, fifteen leaves per letter from a-i, ten leaves per letter from k-t; u has five numbered leaves before foliation stops at fol. 248r. Arabic...
Script: Gothic bookhand
Decoration: One full-page miniature in ink, paint, and gold and one small marginal miniature in ink and paint; seven large flourished initials with marginal extensions and numerous smaller decorated initials throughout, with occasional decorated ascenders; marginal annotations are visible throughout in a variety of hands; seventeen finding tabs are attached to ends of various leaves
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. 2030, no. 33.
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. 175-176, no. 161.
Related resource: Pfändtner, Karl-Georg, "An Unknown Forchheim Missal in the Free Library of Philadelphia," Manuscripta 49 (2005): pp. 59-68.
Provenance: Saint Catherine's Hospital, Forchhiem, Bavaria [?]; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, sold 1919; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Signature and stamp of J. F. Lewis on fol. 1r, dated 1919, along with the stamp of the Thomas F. Richardson Collection - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_161.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_161/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
