Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 201
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- DS ID:
- DS4545
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 201
- Title:
- Chronicle of the History of the World from Creation to Woden, with a Genealogy of Edward IV
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- 1461-1464
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 4778 x 460 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937
- Note:
- Layout: Eleven membranes; 4778 x 460 mm; irregular column structure, vertical ink ruling; one unframed miniature, three large roundels, ten small roundels, one frieze of half-figures, one rota diagram, fifty-four heraldic devices, one tau map, calligraphic initials throughout, colored lines of descent
Script: Anglicana
Provenance: Probably made for Edward IV; possibly belonged to Henry VIII; Messrs. Ellis (booksellers), London, A Catalogue of Choice Books and Manuscripts, cat. 246, 1927, no. 251; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_201.html
- Holding Institution:
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