Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 231

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4571

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 231

Title:

Choir psalter; Hymnal

Choir psalter

Hymnal

Place:

Belém, Portugal

Belém TGN

Portugal TGN

Date:

1540-1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

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)

Jerónimos Monastery WIKIDATA

Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)

Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann WIKIDATA

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:

binding (textile material)

Sixteenth century

Psalters

Liturgics

Hymnals

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia