Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 199

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4544

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 199

Title:

Legenda aurea (Golden Legend)

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298

Jacobus de Voragine WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+7+i; 250 x 173 mm bound to 260 x 185 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: 19th century French paper boards
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead; two columns of forty-four to fifty lines; pricking extant; written area: 195 x 130 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Marginalia throughout
Provenance: Joseph Barrois (1784-1855), no. 410; sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 1901, no. 188; to Ellis; C. W. Dyson Perrins sale, Sotheby's, London, June 17, 1907, no. 180; to Dobell; no. 444 in an English bookseller's catalogue; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

fragments (object portions)

Hagiography

Gothic (Medieval)

glosses (annotations)

Fourteenth century

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_199.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_199/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia