Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 185
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4532
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 185
- Title:
- Lewis Psalter
- Artist:
- Leber Group
- Place:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1220-1245
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+191+i; 228 x 165 mm bound to 238 x 175 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Barnard, Henry Gee, 1789-1858
Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Fol. 1, with the Beatus initial for Psalm 1 on its verso side, has been removed from its original position preceding fol. 32r and now forms a flyleaf
Prayer to Saint Martial on fol. 2r, written in a fifteenth-century cursive hand, reads: Sanctus Martialis discipulus Chri[sti] virgo. / Crux enim domini armatura v[est]ra invicta contra satanam galea / custodiens caput. Lorica protegens pectus, clipeus tela maligni / repellens; gladius iniquitatem et angelicas insidias p[ervers]sae potestat[is] / sibi propinquare sinens nullo modo. Hoc solo...
Note on fol. 32r, written in a late-sixteenth-century hand (the phrase can be attributed to Louis de Blois [1506-1566]) : Psalmodia, carmen est celeste: et eos a quibus colitur sedulo, ex hominibus in angelos transfigurat
Prayer entitled "Oratio" on fol. 191v, consisting of the Collects for the fifth and seventh Sundays after Trinity, written in a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century hand, reads: Da nobis q[uaesumu]s domine [deus noster] ut et mundi cursus nobis pa[ci]fice tuo ordine / dirigatur : et ecclesia tua tranquilla devotione la[e]tetur. / Deus virtutum cui[u]s totium quod est optimum : infere pecto / ribus...
Binding: Seventeenth-century, French, black morocco over wooden boards with two clasps; "PSALMODIA" stamped in gold on spine
Layout: One column of twenty lines, ruled in red; written area: 148 x 84 mm, edges trimmed
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Twenty-five full-page miniatures (prefatory cycle + initial B), twenty-four roundels in calendar, eight large (+/- eight lines) historiated initials, smaller (three-line) historiated initials beginning each of the 150 psalms (as well as divisions in Ps. 118) and canticles throughout, flourished and illuminated initials, illuminated line endings with marginal extensions throughout...
Related resource: A Catalogue Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe (New York, 1909), pp. 162-164.
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. 2028, no. 21.
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 Library, 1937), p. 200-204, no. 185.
Related resource: Walters Art Gallery. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27-March 13 (Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949), pp. 21-22, no. 52, pl. 26.
Related resource: Branner, Robert, "Le Premier évangélaire de la Sainte-Chapelle," Revue de l'Art 3 (1969), pp. 37-48, esp. p. 45.
Related resource: Haussherr, Reiner, Bible moralisée: Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat des Codex Vindobonensis 2554 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt; Paris: Club du Livre, 1973), vol. 2, pp.29-31.
Related resource: Branner, Robert, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of St. Louis: A Study of Styles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 61, 208.
Related resource: Luba, Eleen, The Illustration of the Pauline Epistles in French and English Bibles of the Thirteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), p. 134.
Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "Accidents and Adaptations in Transmission among Fully-Illustrated French Psalters in the Thirteenth Century," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 50 (1987), pp. 375-84.
Related resource: Wolf 2nd, Edwin, ed. Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries, A Selection of Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988), p. 35, no. 1.
Related resource: Oliver, Judith H., Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège, c. 1250-c.1330, Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, vol. 2 (Leuven, Belgium: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988), vol. 1, p. 151, note. 23.
Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "Iconography of the Historiated Psalm Initials in the Thirteenth Century French Fully-Illustrated Psalter Group" Ph.D. Dissertation., University of Pittsburgh, 1991.
Related resource: Alexander, Jonathan J. G., Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work, (New Haven: Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1992), p.p. 163-64, note 15.
Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "The Textual Basis for Visual Errors in French Gothic Psalter Illustration," in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration, and Use, ed. Richard Gameson, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 177-204.
Related resource: Fitzgerald, Wilma, Ocelli Nominum, (Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 2000), p. 78.
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 51-53, no. 10.
Related resource: Büttner, F. O., "Der Illuminierte Psalter im Westen," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhuot: Brepols, 2004), p. 35 (n189); 68 (n21).
Related resource: Bräm, Andreas, "Neapolitanische Trecento-Psaltierien," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 197-199.
Related resource: Sandler, Lucy Freeman, "Word Imagery in English Gothic Psalters," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), 392 (n22).
Related resource: Peterson, Elizabeth A., "Scholastic Hermeneutics in Historiated Initials of 13th-Century French Psalters," in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose, and Placement of its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 349-360.
Related resource: Vidas, Cristina, The Christina Psalter (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2006), pp. 36-38.
Related resource: Stahl, Harvey, Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), p. 290.
Related resource: Frońska, Joanna, "Memory and the Making of Images: A Case of a Legal Manuscript," Manuscripta: A Journal of Manuscript Research 54, no. 1 (2010), p. 3, n. 6 (article pp. 1-20).
Related resource: Klancher, Nancy, The Taming Of The Canaanite Woman (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), p. 289.
Related resource: Frońska, Joanna, "The Memory of Roman Law in an Illuminated Manuscript of Justinian's Digest," in Memory and commemoration in medieval culture, ed. Elma Brenner, Meredith Cohen, and Mary Franklin-Brown (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), p. 164, n. 9 (article pp. 163-79)
Related resource: Bartlett, Robert, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), p. 419.
Provenance: Limoges (fifteenth century) ?, Henry Gee Barnard (1789-1858) of Cave Castle, Howden, Yorkshire; Clarence Sweet Bement, Philadelphia (1843-1923); Robert Hoe, New York; sale, Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1912, II, lot 2507; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (through A. S. W. Rosenbach); 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_185.html
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