Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 167

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DS ID:

DS4515

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 167

Title:

Tractatus moralis de virtutibus (Moral Tract on the Virtues)

Author:

Guilelmus Peraldus, approximately 1190-1271

William Perault WIKIDATA

Place:

England?

England TGN

France?

France TGN

Date:

1385-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+230+ii; 152 x 104 mm bound to 164 x 110 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: English brown calf, circa 1830, blind tooled with gothic design on the sides, half red morocco case
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of forty lines; pricking extant; written area: 112 x 104 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Eight-line puzzle initial with pen flourishing in red and blue (fol. 1r); two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; paragraph signs in red and blue; rubrication throughout; some marginalia
Provenance: Fifteenth-century marginal note in French (fol. 58); No. 12 in a modern English bookseller's cat. (£ 4.15.00); (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

English (culture or style)

England

Gothic (Medieval)

Philosophy

decorated initials

treatises

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_167.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_167/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia