Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 189

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4536

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 189

Title:

Psalter

Psalter

Place:

Greece?

Greece TGN

Date:

1200-1299

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+192+iii; 211 x 168 mm bound to 230 x 174 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Leighton, George F.

George F. Leighton WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Flyleaves of nineteenth-century parchment
First two flyleaves almost completely detached
Binding: Nineteenth-century levant morocco, blind tooled borders of interlaced cable pattern around circular gilt ornaments on the covers, gilt back and spine title, by Bedford
Layout: One column of twenty lines, with initials at the beginning of verses in a narrow column on the left margin; ruled in drypoint; written area: 157 x 115 mm
Script: Greek minuscule
Decoration: Ornamental head piece on the first page in gold and colors with geometric pattern surmounted by two peacocks (fol. 1r), rubbed; two similar, slightly smaller head pieces, also somewhat rubbed, at Psalm 78 (fol. 88r) and the beginning of the Biblical Canticles (fol. 172r); initials and rubrication in gold; some later rubrication in 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. 2025, no. 1.
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. 208, no. 189.
Provenance: George A. Leavitt & Co., Cat. 330, March 3, 1880, no. 625; George F. Leighton, St. Louis (bookplate inside front cover); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 25, 1929, no. 88 (sale description bound in between second and third flyleaves); (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Christianity

Sacred works

illuminations (paintings)

Greece

Thirteenth century

Psalters

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_189.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_189/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia