Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 187

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4534

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 187

Title:

Psalter

Place:

Northern France?

Northern France TGN

Flanders?

Flanders TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+175+i; 113 x 85 mm bound to 120 x 87 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Gay, Emile

Emile Gay WIKIDATA

Note:

Marginal notation from later readers throughout
Psalms 1-148 numbered in a later hand
Eighteenth-century printed prayers and litany on front and back end papers
Binding: Late 18th-century red morocco, gold stamped decoration on borders and spine; gilt edges; "PSALTERIUM" stamped on green morocco label on spine; marbled end papers
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 18 lines; written area: 83 x 60 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Three historiated initials; five-line puzzle initials in red and blue throughout; two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue throughout; one-line initials in red or blue throughout; decorative line fillers in red or 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. 2019, no. 23
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. 206, no. 187.
Provenance: Unidentified 18th century armorial bookplate on inside of front cover; bookplate has the signature of Emile Gay and is dated 1821; on the verso of the front flyleaf is inscribed; "For Mr. Foggo with the kindest regards of his parishioner Caroline Countess Bouxhoevden, April 16th 1856" and "presented to W.W. Wiltbank Esqr. Octr 9th 1893." "XIII century" also written in pencil in...

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Thirteenth century

Christianity

Psalters

France

Historiated initials

Gothic (Medieval)

Prayers and devotions

decorated initials

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_187.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_187/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia