Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 216

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DS ID:

DS4560

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 216

Title:

Postilla epistolarum dominicalium

Author:

Matthias de Liegnitz ca. um 1379

Matthias von Liegnitz WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+210+i; 308 x 210 mm bound to 320 x 225 mm; paper

Note:

Probably written by multiple hands, with varying line height and number of lines per page
Binding: Leather, blind-tooled; damaged paper label on spine with ... thia de Legnit ... 1408
Layout: Two columns of forty-one to forty-four lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 190 x 147 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Six-line decorated initial (fol. 1r) with first five lines of text in double-height textualis semi-quadrata; three- or four-line initial in red at the beginning of each sermon followed by one line of textualis script; rubrication, paragraph marks, underlining, and initials touched in red ink throughout; occasional nota marks including one manicule (fol. 17v) in red ink in margins...

Keyword:

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

Theology

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_216.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_216/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia