Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 186

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4533

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 186

Title:

Psalter

Place:

Hildesheim?, Germany

Hildesheim TGN

Date:

1140-1160

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 195; 152 x 115 mm bound to 156 x 115; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Vremans, Anna

Anna Vremans WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding is not original to this manuscript, but is a well-preserved example of a late medieval binding; the blind-tooled fleur-de- lis within a lozenge pattern was a typical type of decoration in the fifteenth and sixteenth century; the binding maintains its original clasps
Several repairs in parchment; at least ten leaves, five of which would have contained illuminated initials, appear to be lacking: two leaves between fols. 6 and 7 (final page of calendar and an additional page); one leaf between fols. 33 and 34 (end of Psalm 25-beginning of Psalm 26); two leaves between fols. 63 and 64 (end of Psalm 50-beginning of Psalm 52); one leaf between fols. 78 and 79...
Marginal notes in a northern German dialect
An obit in the calendar for October (fol. 6r) reads: "Pie memorie obiit Anna Vr[e]mans requiescat i[n] pace"
Binding: Late-fifteenth- or early-sixteenth-century, blind tooled pigskin with fleur-de-lis stamps within lozenge pattern, filleted border with rosettes, two decorated metal clasps; flush with book block
Layout: One column of sixteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 103 x 78 mm
Script: Gothic--semitextualis
Decoration: One ten-line historiated initial (fol. 7v), two five-line historiated initials (fols. 49r and 97v), two-line illuminated flourished initials throughout, single-line initials in red, green, and blue 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. 2028, no. 19.
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. 205, no. 186.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 9.
Provenance: Anna Vremans? (14th-century); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; an obituary in the calendar for October (fol. 6v) reads: "Pie memorie obiit Anna Vr[e]mans requiescat i[n] pace"

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

biblical

Christianity

German (culture, style, period)

Psalters

Germany

Sacred works

illustrations (layout features)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_186.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_186/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia