Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 169

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4517

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 169

Title:

Aurora

Author:

Peter Riga, approximately 1140-1209

Petrus Riga WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1300-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+176+iii; 215 x 114 mm bound to 225 x 125 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Harford, Charles Joseph

Charles Joseph Harford WIKIDATA

Harford, Frederick Kill, 1832-1906

Frederick Kill Harford WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper flyleaves
Binding and front flyleaves detached from book block
Binding: Blue straight grain morocco; blind-tooled borders; spine title Biblia sacra
Layout: One column of forty-two to forty-five lines; ruled in lead, with three vertical bounding lines on the left to create a narrow column for the initials at the beginning of each line; some prickings are visible; occasional marginal notes in red ink; written area: 165 x 65 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Initials in red and blue, from two lines to five lines; some pen ornamentation in the margin, including penwork diagrams
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. 131.
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. 183, no. 169 (+ Supplement).
Related resource: M. Huglo, "La dispersion des manuscrits de Royaumont", Revue bénédictine, t. 113, f. 2 (2003), p. 376 (article: pp. 365-406).
Provenance: Bookplate of Charles Joseph Harford, circa 1880, inside front cover; Rev. Frederick Kill Harford sale, Sotheby's, London, April 24, 1899, no. 895; to Maggs; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, before 1915 (Voynich letter, pasted to flyleaf 2 verso at end); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

biblical

Charts, diagrams, etc.

Gothic (Medieval)

Commentaries

Theology

Italy

French (culture or style)

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_169.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_169/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia