Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 211

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DS ID:

DS4555

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 211

Title:

Noels (Christmas carols)

Author:

Maillard, Olivier, approximately 1430-1502

Oliver Maillard WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1520-1530

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 61; 264 x 185 mm; written area of varying dimensions depending on line length and number of stanzas per page bound to 271 x 194 mm; paper

Note:

Water damage to center of pages in fols. 2r-16v and to upper outside corner throughout; edges of the paper are worn and fragile
Two scribes, the first responsible for fols. 1r-43v and 48r-51v; a later sixteenth-century hand has copied fols. 44r-47r and fol. 52r to the end; only the folios produced by the first scribe are decorated
At the top of fol. 9r, a contemporary note indicates a version of "L'Homme armé" as the melody: "Sur Et Robinet tu m'as t'amour donnée"; other melodies are suggested in notes contemporary on fols. 10r, 13r, 18r, 19r, 22r, 23v, 29v
Inscription in frame on fol. 1r reads: "REGINA CELI LETARE ALLELUYA QUIA QUEM MERUISTI PORTARE ALLILUYA RESURREXIT SICUT DIXIT ALLELUYA ORA PRO NOBIS DEUM ALLELUYA AMEN AMEN"
Binding: Sixteenth-century limp vellum binding, made from a notary document from Nantes; "Nantes" is inscribed in pencil on the inside front cover; illegible word beginning with B is written in pencil on the back
Layout: One column with varying number of lines; one frontispiece miniature; twenty-five vignettes in ink and watercolor; sixteen decorated and inhabited initials in ink and watercolor; three decorated ink and watercolor initials; seven initials in paint and gold
Script: Bâtarde
Script: Humanistic
Script: Humanistic Cursive
Decoration: One frontispiece miniature; twenty-five vignettes in ink and watercolor; sixteen decorated, inhabited initials in ink and watercolor; three decorated ink and watercolor initials; seven initials in paint and gold
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. 451, no. 22.
Related resource: M. B. Parkes, ed., The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford, a descriptive catalogue with summary descriptions of the Greek and Oriental manuscripts. (London: Scholar Press, 1979), cf. cat. no. 33.
Provenance: H. P. Kraus (Cat. 75, No. 77) to the Free Library of Philadelphia, June, 1955

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

inhabited initials

Christianity

France

illustrations (layout features)

Watermarks

damage (condition)

decorated initials

Paper

French (culture or style)

Hymnals

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_211.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_211/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia