Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 188

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4535

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 188

Title:

Psalter, glossed

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+154+i; 305 x 207 mm bound to 310 x 225 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Dore, J. R. (John Read)

John Read Dore WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Water damage in upper corner of all leaves has obscured some of the text
Second front endpaper is glued to the recto of the first leaf of the manuscript, completely covering it
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf over spine; front joint cracked; leather of joints damaged at head of spine; old wooden boards; gilt title label on spine, Psalterium Davidis
Layout: Psalms written in ten to thirteen lines of psalm text, with interlinear and marginal glosses; box-ruled in brown ink; prickings visible; written area: 150 x 225 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Script: Hybrida
Decoration: Colors other than red mostly seem to be later additions, including one small illustration of David with crown and harp (fol. 5v) and a large decorated B at the beginning of the Psalms (fol 6r); two-line red initials and initials stroked with red throughout; some marginal lemmata stroked with red
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. 24.
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. 207, no. 188.
Provenance: John Read Dore (1831-1895) of Huddersfield, author of Old Bibles: an account of the early versions of the English Bible, and a chemist; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes written in a nineteenth-century hand and pasted into the front cover and describing the manuscript's contents begin, "Mr...

Keyword:

Prayer books

German (culture, style, period)

Psalters

Colophons

Germany

Watermarks

Commentaries

Fifteenth century

glosses (annotations)

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_188.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_188/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia