Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 195

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DS ID:

DS4540

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 195

Title:

Vitae XII caesarium (Lives of the twelve caesars), fragment and Book of Hours leaf

Author:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122

Suetonius WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

France

France TGN

Date:

1500-1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: v+12+vi; 253 x 155 mm bound to 262 x 165 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Leaf from a Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin, Compline) tipped in to back flyleaf; leaf from the same Book of Hours is tipped in to Lewis AL 025.8 B56 between folios 46-47
A fragment, breaking off in the middle of the Life of Julius Ceasar; table of contents lists the other books of Suetonius's Lives, the last one beginning on fol. 131
Hand that wrote the table of contents is different from that of the main text; same hand wrote the running titles that appear on each page; Greek inscription on folio 9v also in a different hand
Binding: Bound in 19th-century half morocco with marbled paper covers; stamped in gold on spine, "Life of Caesar (Suetonius) Fragment XV. Cent. Ms."
Layout: One column of thirty-two lines, frame-ruled in lead point; one illuminated initial (fol. 1r); running title on each page; written area: 165 x 95 mm
Layout: A leaf from a Book of Hours tipped in to back flyleaf; one-line and two-line initials decorated in red, blue and gold, decorated borders, and line fillers; frame-ruled in ink; one column of twenty-three lines; page dimension: 113 x 102 mm; written area: 95 x 60 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Bâtarde
Provenance: D. T. P.; Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 2665); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "DTP" written in pencil on fol. 2r; "Phillips MS 2665" written in ink on fol. 1r and "Italian hand Lives of the Caesars Suetonius" also written in ink in Phillipps's hand on fol. 1r

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

French (culture or style)

France

fragments (object portions)

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

Biographies

Italy

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_195.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_195/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia