Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 198

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4543

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 198

Title:

Opera

Author:

Virgil

Virgil WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence?, Italy

Florence TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+194+i; 280 x 174 mm bound to 284 x 186; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Caboga, Antonio

Antonio Marino de Caboga WIKIDATA

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930

Wilfrid Voynich WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Sixteenth-century notes in cursiva script, fol. 193r
Letter from Wilfred Michael Voynich to Lewis concerning the gift of the manuscript in the Free Library of Philadelphia curatorial file
Binding: Eighteenth-century limp vellum; "Virgilius" written in ink on spine
Layout: One column of thirty-five lines, ruled in grey ink; written area: 201 x 105 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One large historiated initial with inhabited border (fol. 2r), forty-six illuminated initials; red and blue paragraph markers; fols. 145v-146v were ruled but left blank
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. 2057, no. 172.
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. 217, no. 198.
Provenance: Antonio Caboga of Ragusa (seventeenth or eighteenth century; on the first page of the text is the inscription "Ex libris Antonij Caboge Rhagusini" [Ragusa/Dubrovnik, in Dalmatia] and over the erased arms on the opposite page are added in ink what appear to be two fleur-de-lys on a bar, probably his arms); "14th cent Italy" written in pencil on the recto of the front flyleaf in...

Keyword:

Literature

illustrations (layout features)

humanistic scripts

illuminations (paintings)

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Fifteenth century

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_198.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_198/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia