Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 223

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4568

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 223

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Belém, Portugal

Belém TGN

Date:

1540-1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 193; 510 x 340 mm bound to 535 x 360 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)

Jerónimos Monastery WIKIDATA

Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)

Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann WIKIDATA

Note:

A single folio has been excised between fols. 9 and 10, but the text and original foliation are continuous so this does not appear to be later damage
Fols. 3r-4v and 25r-26r contain paper strips with responses tipped in over the original text, perhaps to adapt the manuscript for the liturgical needs of a particular church
Evidence of early damage and repairs to parchment
Fols. 45 and 130 severely trimmed
Occasional fragmentary remains of paper tabs, presumably markers of important texts
The text has been annotated and corrected in a number of near-contemporary and later hands
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners and bosses (some missing); remains of clasps; edges stained red
Layout: Single column of six lines with five-line staves in red ink; lead point ruling; written area: 395 x 230 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One historiated initial, showing the Holy Family, on fol. 1r; one illuminated initial on fol. 58v; numerous black and colored initials with penwork decoration; marginal drawing, bird (fol. 182r)
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. 28.
Provenance: Probably gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 212-234, see colophons in first two volumes); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900; catalog entry and typed description pasted onto the inside front cover; bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia pasted on to inside front cover; Stamped...

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Musical notation

Sixteenth century

Missing leaves

Portugal

Portuguese

Antiphonaries

Historiated initials

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_223.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_223/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia