Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 197

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DS ID:

DS4542

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 197

Title:

Expositio in civitatem dei S. Augustini (Commentary on St. Augustine's City of god)

Author:

Waleys, Thomas, approximately 1287-1350?

Thomas Waleys WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+122; 304 x 217 mm bound to 315 x 226 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Frater Salvator Orlandini de Lanciolina

Frater Salvator Orlandini de Lanciolina WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Some marginal glosses relating to subjects of adjacent passages, in an early hand
Binding: French eighteenth-century red morocco, gilt back and edges, in slipcase
Layout: Two columns of forty-three lines, ruled in plummet; running book numbers in red ink, center of upper margin; written area: 223 x 152 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One large initial on the first page in gold and colors of a Florentine type in the manner of Antonio de Chierico, with foliate decoration and extensions containing gold dots, a coat-of-arms in the lower margin supported by two putti with the partially erased monogram IG in the center of the arms; twenty-two smaller initials in gold on grounds of red, green and blue; capitals and...
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. 2049, no. 133.
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. 216, no. 197.
Provenance: Bought in Florence, Aug. 8, 1486, by a Franciscan monk, Frater Salvator Orlandini de Lanciolina, according to ownership inscription on fol. 122r ("Iste liber expositionis super librum Augustini De civitate dei est as usum fratris Salvatoris Orlandini de Lanciolina ordinis minoribus quem emit Florentie optimo partio anno 1486 die 8 augusti"); R. Dugate (?) circa 1880; Bull and...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

Commentaries

Theology

Italy

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_197.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_197/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia