Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 170

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DS ID:

DS4518

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 170

Title:

Liber IV sententiarum (Four Books of Sentences)

Author:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160

Peter Lombard WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

France

France TGN

Date:

1275-1325

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+219+iii; 370 x 264 mm bound to 384 x 285 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721

Clement XI WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Dunn, George, 1864-1912

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Early repairs to parchment throughout
Some leaves cut or otherwise damaged
Loose fragment of parchment between fols. 81 and 82
Marginal note listing the nine orders of angels on fol. 73r
The marginal drawings in drypoint are not visible in the digital images
Binding: Nineteenth-century green morocco, gilt tooled decoration, gilt edges, marble paper pastedowns and end leaves; stamped in gold on spine: "Liber Sententiarum"
Layout: Two columns of forty lines; lead point ruling with columns for marginal gloss, pricking visible; evidence of trimming; written area: 203 x 136 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Six large decorated initials, two unfinished; small blue initials with red pen-work decoration throughout; occasional marginal drawings in drypoint; manicules throughout
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. 2050, no. 139.
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. 184, no. 170.
Provenance: Pope Clement XI (early eighteenth century); Joseph Barrois (sold 1849); Earl of Ashburnham (sold 1901); George Dunn of Wooley Hall (ex-Libris of George Dunn of Wooley Hall on inside front cover; sold 1913 to Tregaskis); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalog entries pasted on recto of first end...

Keyword:

France

damage (condition)

Gothic (Medieval)

Theology

manicules

French (culture or style)

glosses (annotations)

treatises

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_170.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_170/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia