Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 231
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4571
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 231
- Title:
- Choir psalter; Hymnal
- Place:
- Belém, Portugal
- Date:
- 1540-1560
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+189+vii; 590 x 400 mm bound to 613 x 420 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)
Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
- Note:
- Front cover and top flyleaves detached
Some damage from flaking
Marginal and interlineal annotations in near-contemporary and later hands
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corner and bosses; remains of clasps; edges stained red
Layout: One column of fifteen lines; lead point ruling; written area: 460 x 280 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Seven large decorated initials with partial foliate and geometric borders; numerous colored initials in red, blue, green, and black 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. 452-53, no. 35.
Provenance: May have been made for the Jerónimos Monastery near Lisbon; 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 "Geo. S. Pepper Fund" and "3079," bottom of fol. 2r - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_231.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_231/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
