Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 171
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4519
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 171
- Title:
- Pontifical
- Place:
- Italy
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+192+i; 282 x 195 mm bound to 288 x 206 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Thomas F. Richardson
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Leaves missing before fol. 1 and between fols. 65 and 66; marginal notes and manicules in later hands
Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards with stamped decoration including fleurs-de-lys, birds, rosettes, and wyverns; evidence of clasps; brown cloth case
Layout: Single column of twenty-eight lines; musical notation on four-line staves; ruled in ink; pricking visible; written area: 185 x 134 mm
Script: Littera bononiensis
Decoration: One hundred and three very fine ornamental initials in gold and colors, with bright blue predominating; other initials in red and blue with some penwork decoration; rubrication, underlining, and stave lines 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. 2031, no. 36.
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. 185, no. 171.
Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_171.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_171/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
