Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 164

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4512

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 164

Title:

Oedipi et Sphingis dialogus (Dialogues between Oedipus and the Sphinx); Le Sphinx

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1570-1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Ancient Greek (to 1453); Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: v+97+iv; 270 x 190 mm bound to 275 x 205 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Five front flyleaves, all late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century except for the fourth, which is eighteenth-century, with French text on the Sphinx and Oedipus; four end flyleaves, all late nineteenth or early twentieth-century
Leaves at the end of the volume have been repaired; the end of the book is damaged and the last leaves are missing
Quire 11 is an artificial quire consisting of the leaves at the end of the volume where the collation cannot be determined
Binding: Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century green morocco, gilt-tooled, Lakeside Press, Chicago (inside front cover, lower edge); gilt spine title, Oedipus Manuscript
Layout: One column of varying line counts; frame-ruled in lead; written area: 225 x 115 mm
Script: Humanistic Cursive
Decoration: Fifty-eight watercolor illustrations of allegorical scenes, one at the beginning of each dialogue
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. 180.
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 Library, 1937), p. 178, no. 164.
Related resource: Sider, Sandra, and Barbara Obrist, eds. Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992), no. 331.
Related resource: Rinalli, Tina-Marie, "Oedipi et Sphingi Dialogus, MS FLP Lewis E 164, An Unknown Rendering of the Oedipus Legend and a New Dynamic Between Oedipus and the Sphinx" in Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past: Selected Proceedings from the 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), pp. 90-107.
Provenance: Final illustration is of a coat of arms, damaged so that all that remains is the hind legs of three animals such as wolves or wolfhounds (page 196); De Foudras family, Bayère, 1747 (child's inscription, "J'aimerois bien ma petite soeur si elle n'etoit pas si sotte, 20 8bre 1747, de foudras, bayere," page 157); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker...

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

illustrations (layout features)

France

Heraldry

French (culture or style)

Allegory

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_164.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_164/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia