Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 226

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4569

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 226

Title:

Gradual

Place:

Belém, Portugal

Belém TGN

Date:

1540-1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+190+i; 508 x 351 mm bound to 540 x 367 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)

Jerónimos Monastery WIKIDATA

Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)

Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann WIKIDATA

Note:

Bottom half of fol. 184 excised
Fragmentary remains of parchment tabs sewn into outer edges of fols. 37 and 121
Additional musical notation added by later hands to fols. 106v, 169v, 186r, and inside back cover
Evidence of early damage and repairs to parchment
Some text and musical notation flaked
Folios excised between fols. 120-121, 122-123, and 188-189
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps; edges stained red
Layout: Single column of six lines with five-line staves in red ink; hard-ruled; written area: 397 x 235 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One illuminated initial (fol. 1r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration, some with marginal flourishes and birds or dragons
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. 31.
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:

Graduals (Liturgical books)

binding (textile material)

Musical notation

Missing leaves

Sixteenth century

Portugal

Portuguese

Historiated initials

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_226.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_226/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia