Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 168

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DS ID:

DS4516

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 168

Title:

Historia scholastica

Author:

Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century

Petrus Comestor WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1300-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+214+ii; 296 x 212 mm bound to 307 x 223 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Royaumont Abbey(?)

Royaumont Abbey WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Written on very thin parchment
At fol. 188, the early foliation skips to 189 but there is no missing leaf; thereafter the modern pencil foliation is correct
Book IX, omitted by the original scribe, has been added in a different hand after the end of the main text (fols. 214r-v)
Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gilt with "HISTORIA SCHOLASTICA / PETRUS COMESTOR / SÆC. XIII." stamped on spine; in modern red cloth slipcase
Layout: Two columns of forty-four lines; frame-ruled in ink, pricking holes visible; written area: 196 x 142 mm; evidence of trimming
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Large and small ornamental capitals with marginal penwork tracery in red and blue; rubrication and paragraph marks in red
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. 2049, no. 132.
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. 182, no. 168.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 6.
Related resource: M. Huglo, "La dispersion des manuscrits de Royaumont," Revue bénédictine, t. 113, f. 2 (2003), p. 377 (article: pp. 365-406).
Provenance: May have been in the Abbey of Royaumont in 1791 (see Huglo 2013); lot 429 in American Art Association sale, New York, Jan. 30, 1928 (print catalog clipping pasted inside front cover); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (his shelfmark "168" in green crayon on flyleaf 1v); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

biblical

Sacred works

France

Gothic (Medieval)

Commentaries

French (culture or style)

glosses (annotations)

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_168.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_168/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia