Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 221
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4566
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 221
- Title:
- Antiphonary
- Place:
- Belém, Portugal
- Language:
- Latin
- 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
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)
Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_221.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_221/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
