Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 196

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DS ID:

DS4541

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 196

Title:

Comediae

Author:

Terence

Terence WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1190-1210

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+110+i; 125 x 94 mm bound to 134 x 102 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Glossed throughout
Occasional manicules
Annotation on fol. 10r mentions the humanist Lorenzo Valla
Evidence of historic damage and repairs
Binding: Black morocco, stamped in gold on the spine: "...COMEDIÆ COD..."; with blue silk ribbon bookmark; in a red morocco slipcase by H. Zucker of Philadelphia, stamped in gold on spine: "`TERENTII COMOEDIAE LATIN MS XIV. CENTURY A PALIMPSEST"
Layout: One column of up to thirty lines; ruled in hard point and ink; visible pricking; written area: 95 x 62 mm; rubrication distinguishes speakers; running headings throughout
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Simple colored capitals only
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. 2056, no. 170.
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. 215, no. 196.
Provenance: Possibly lot 283 in the Abate Celotti sale, London March 13, 1825; Sir Thomas Phillips, Middle Hill, c. 1825; sold to Maggs, London 1899; sold by Sotheby's, London June 25, 1917; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Twelfth century

damage (condition)

Italian (culture or style)

Palimpsests

Italy

Prose literature

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_196.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_196/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia