Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 194

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4539

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 194

Title:

Sermons

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1450-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+118+i; 285 x 205 mm bound to 293 x 215 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Later marbled paper over paper boards
Layout: Two columns of forty to fifty-four lines; first part frame-ruled in ink (fols. 1-54), second part frame-ruled in lead (fols. 55-118); running titles for feast or ferial days in upper margin; written area: 210 x 140 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Script: Hybrida
Decoration: Initials in red, mostly two or three lines in height, except for a simple nine-line initial at the beginning of the Sunday sermons (fol. 1r), and a six-line initial ornamented with green penwork at the beginning of the Lenten sermons (fol. 55r); paragraph marks, underlining, rubrication, capitals touched in red
Provenance: Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 307; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 691 (inscription, fol. 1r); his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, 727, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (armorial bookplate inside front cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Sermons

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_194.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_194/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia