Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 229
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4570
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 229
- Title:
- Gradual
- Place:
- Belém, Portugal
- Date:
- 1540-1560
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 140; 708 x 540 mm bound to 740 x 565 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)
Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
- Note:
- Fragments from liturgical manuscripts reused in eighteenth-century binding as pastedowns inside covers and string guards
Parts of the original text and notation have been erased
Some later annotations in pencil and ink
Fol. 78 has been cut, almost in half
Fol. 138 almost detached
Fragmentary remains of paper tabs in outer margins
Evidence of trimming
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses, and one clasp; edges stained red; sixteenth-century manuscript fragments used as pastedowns inside front and back covers and as string guards
Layout: One column of six lines; five-line staves in red ink; lead point ruling; written area: 625 x 303 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One illuminated initial, numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration
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. 33
Provenance: Probably a 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; stamped "Geo. S. Pepper Fund 3082" on fol. 1r - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_229.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_229/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
