Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 221

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4566

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 221

Title:

Antiphonary

Antiphonary

Place:

Belém, Portugal

Belém TGN

Portugal TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 183; 590 x 400 mm bound to 624 x 420 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

John III, King of Portugal, 1502-1557

John III of Portugal WIKIDATA

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)

Jerónimos Monastery WIKIDATA

Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)

Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann WIKIDATA

Note:

Historiated initial by same hand as that of Lewis E 222 and Lewis E 223
Folios missing after fols. 108, 151, 156, 179, and 183
Remains of parchment and paper marker tabs throughout
Some flaking of paint and ink
Wax drippings on fols. 175r and 177r
Extensive repairs to parchment throughout
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps
Layout: One column of twenty lines; ruled in ink; five-line staves in red ink; written area: 450 x 257 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One historiated initial with Saint Jerome kneeling before a crucifix (fol. 151v); one illuminated initial (fol. 1r) with full panel border; numerous black and colored initials of varying height with pen-work decoration throughout
Related resource: J. Thomson, Hither and Thither (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 135-144.
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. 452, no. 26.
Provenance: Gift of King John III to the College of Saint Jerome in 1548 (see colophon); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Musical notation

Sixteenth century

Portugal

Portuguese

Antiphonaries

Historiated initials

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia