Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 234

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4573

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 234

Title:

Antiphonary

Place:

Belém, Portugal

Belém TGN

Date:

1540-1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 117+i; 499 x 350 mm bound to 518 x 366 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal)

Jerónimos Monastery WIKIDATA

Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)

Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann WIKIDATA

Note:

Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234 are all associated with the College of Saint Jerome, Belém, and were purchased from Hiersemann of Leipzig in 1900
Text annotated and corrected by later hands, in red and black ink
Remains of paper tabs throughout, some clearly cut from printed books, some with eighteenth-century(?) script
Occasional erasures throughout
Some text and musical notation flaking
Binding: Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps
Layout: Single column of twenty lines; five-line staves in red ink with musical notation; hard ruled; written area: 400 x 274 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Three illuminated initials (fols. 1r, 34r, 77r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration; three unfinished initials (fols. 115r, 116r, 117r)
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. 453, no. 38.
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:

binding (textile material)

Musical notation

Sixteenth century

Antiphonaries

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_234.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_234/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia