Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 177

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4523

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 177

Title:

Prayer book

Place:

Germany?

Germany TGN

France?

France TGN

Date:

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 86; 110 x 82 mm bound to 122 x 95 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Barnard, P.M.

Percy Mordaunt Barnard WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation note: Appears to be quired in gatherings of eight; manuscript consists of fragments from at least three different manuscripts bound together; no evidence of catchwords or contemporary foliation
Binding: De Ricci: English paper boards, ca 1830 (by the Phillipps binder)
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 10 lines; fol. 25 (insert) in one column of 22 lines; written area: 71 x 55 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One three-line initial in colors on a gold ground; two- and three-line pen-flourished decorated initials in red and blue throughout; one-line initials in red or blue throughout; rubrication 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. 2043, no. 106.
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. 191, no. 177 (+Supplement).
Provenance: No. 34 in an old collection; Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 59; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 444=21986; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 677, to P. M. Barnard; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Prayer books

Christianity

France

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_177.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_177/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia