Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 204

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4548

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 204

Title:

Menologium

Author:

Philagathos, of Cerami

Philagathus of Cerami WIKIDATA

Place:

Southern Italy?

Southern Italy TGN

Language:

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 313; 203 x 152 mm bound to 206 x 152 mm; mixed

Former Owner(s):

University of Chicago. Library

University of Chicago Library WIKIDATA

Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920

Charles F. Gunther WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript on glazed paper with parchment miniatures pasted in
One miniature (on f. 223r) has Latin prayers in humanistic bookhand visible on its verso
Note in ink pasted inside front cover gives date of composition as 1081 and date of copying as 1493
Description inside front cover mentions four miniatures; catalog description inside back cover advertises three
Origin in southern Italy assigned by De Ricci
Binding: Probably contemporary Greek monastic blind-stamped calf, with bosses; rebacked
Layout: One column of twenty-five lines; margins pressed into leaves with a frame; written area: 149 x 90 mm
Script: Greek cursive
Decoration: Three full-page fifteenth-century Venetian miniatures on vellum pasted in (fol. 4r possibly over notes, fol. 223r over text, fol. 235r on a blank leaf); initials and ornamental marginal decorations in brown or faded red; edges decorated with designs in red and brown ink
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. 2282-2283, no. 922.
Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 450, no. 15.
Provenance: Label of dealer Joseph Baer and Co., Frankfurt, in inside front cover; University of Chicago Libraries before 1925 (embossed stamp in text in upper right corner of fol. 1 and effaced accession number in top margin of fol. 2r); Charles F. Gunther, Chicago (printed catalog description pasted inside back cover, Anderson, New York, 12 November 1925, I, number 173); John F. Lewis

Keyword:

Greece

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Sermons

Theology

Paper

Italy

Fifteenth century

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_204.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_204/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia