Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 205

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4549

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 205

Title:

Stella di salute

Author:

Frater Santi de Bon Cor de Sutele

Frater Santi de Bon Cor de Sutele WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence?, Italy

Florence TGN

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+205+ii; 163 x 114 mm bound to 174 x 123 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Cora, Luigi

Luigi Cora WIKIDATA

Note:

A manuscript with the same text is listed in Folnesics, Hans, Die illuminierten Handschriften in Dalmatien (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1917), p. 50, as being in the library of the State Italian College of Zadar, in modern-day Croatia (observation by Nicholas Herman, 02/2017)
Binding: Sixteenth-century brown morocco with stamped motifs
Layout: One column of eighteen lines; written area: 100 x 85 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda; Scribe: Frater Faustino
Decoration: One historiated initial with decorated border (fol. 1r); rubrication in red; pen flourishes throughout
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. 16.
Provenance: Bookplate of Luigi Cora, twentieth century; acquired in 1926 by the Free Library of Philadelphia (Pepper fund)

Keyword:

Christianity

Colophons

Historiated initials

Italian (culture or style)

Gothic (Medieval)

manicules

Italy

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_205.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_205/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia