Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 233
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4572
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 233
- Title:
- Antiphonary
- Place:
- Belém, Portugal
- Date:
- 1540-1560
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 86; 550 x 370 mm bound to 575 x 380 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)
Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
- Note:
- Front cover detached from spine
Folios missing before fols. 1 and 81, and after fol. 86
Marginal annotations in contemporary and later scripts
Text flaking in places
Erased nineteenth-century(?) inscription on fol. 25v
Staves extended or added in later hands on fols. 28r and 84v
Parchment extensively repaired throughout
Remains of paper and parchment marker tabs
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps, some missing
Layout: Single column of twenty-one lines; lead point ruling; five-line staves in red ink; written area: 415 x 245 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One illuminated initial (fol. 65v); 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. 452-53, no. 37.
Provenance: Almost certainly 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. 1r - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_233.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_233/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
