Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 180

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4526

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 180

Title:

Processional

Place:

France

France TGN

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: v+111+viii; 184 x 114 mm bound to 190 x 118 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Sister Marie Ségvier (scribe)
Colophon in French
Binding: Original red morocco, in the corners of the sides olive branch festoons issuing from cupids' heads, in the center an oval of olive branches lettered on the top S MARIE, and on the lower cover SEGVIER, gilt edges, in cloth case
Layout: Musical notation on four-line staves; 18 lines, or 6 staves plus text per page; ruled in red ink; written area: 117 x 70 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Full border of naturalistic flowers and fruits on a camaïeu d'or ground (fol. 1r); decorative initials throughout in camaïeu d'or, camaïeu gris and colors; 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. 2033, no. 180.
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, 2 nd , with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 194, no. 180.
Provenance: Made by Sister Marie Ségvier, Couvent de Cordelières, Bourg Saint-Marcel, Paris, 1603; Henkels sale, ca. 1910, no. 260 or 280 (as "Hours"); (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Musical notation

Christianity

France

Seventeenth century

Processionals (Liturgical books)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_180.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_180/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia