Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 222

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4567

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 222

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Belém, Portugal

Belém TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 163; 588 x 380 mm bound to 613 x 396 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:

The front cover is nearly detached
Initial by same hand as that of Lewis E 221 and 223
Some flaking of ink
Remains of parchment and paper marker tabs throughout
Binding: Eighteenth-century; stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps; edges stained red
Layout: One column of twenty lines; lead point ruling; written area: 440 x 260 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One illuminated initial with an all'antica panel border (fol. 1r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration, some extending into marginal drawings of birds (fols. 114r and 134r)
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. 27.
Provenance: Gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (see colophon, fol. 163v); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Musical notation

Sixteenth century

Portugal

Portuguese

Antiphonaries

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_222.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_222/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia