Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 239
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4578
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 239
- Title:
- Bible, Gospels
- Place:
- Metz?, Germany
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+197+i; 270 x 205 mm bound to 292 x 210 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Chartreuse de Rettel (Rettel, Moselle)
Marston, Thomas E.
- Note:
- Flyleaves sixteenth-century paper
Binding: Sixteenth-century brown calf over boards, with two clasps; antique paper pastedowns; stamped in gold on spine: INCIPIT EVANGEL
Layout: One column of twenty-two lines; frame-ruled in hard point with double bounding lines; prickings visible; each verse begins with an initial written in the left double bounding line; written area: 195x 128 mm
Script: Caroline Minuscule
Script: Uncial (rubrics, initials, running titles)
Decoration: Red initials throughout; a second stage of nine-line puzzle initials at the beginning of each Gospel (fols. 1r, 53v, 89r, 147r) in red and blue ink and running titles and chapter numbers in textualis script in red ink added later, possibly in the fifteenth century
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. 83-84 no. 173.
Provenance: Carthusian monastery at Rettel or Rutila on the Moselle River, near Sirck (15th century, inscription, "Iste liber est fr[atoru]m Carthusiensu[m] in Ritula p[rop]e Sirck," fol. 1r); Graf von Villers von Gaugusch (?), 1820 (signature, fol. 1r); Jacques Rosenthal, Munich; sold 1946/47 to C.A. Stonehill, New Haven, Conn; sold 1952 to Thomas E. Marston, New Haven Connecticut (armorial... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_239.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_239/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
