Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 240

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DS ID:

DS4579

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 240

Title:

Revelations

Author:

Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373

Bridget of Sweden WIKIDATA

Cherubino, da Siena, frate, -1484

Cherubino da Spoleto WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+176+i; 290 x 210 mm bound to 300 x 220 mm; mixed

Former Owner(s):

Mercantile Library of Philadelphia

Mercantile Library Company WIKIDATA

Note:

Outermost and innermost bifolia of each gathering are parchment, the rest of the bifolia are paper
Water damage on many of the folios
Twentieth-century paper flyleaves front and back; second front flyleaf is fifteenth-century paper ruled in ink
Binding: Twentieth-century half calf over original wooden boards; blind-stamped spine title, St. Brigitta, Revelationum
Layout: Two columns of thirty-eight to thirty-nine lines; frame-ruled in hard point; second front flyleaf is ruled in ink but is not inscribed, in the same manner as fol. 176v; written area: 215 x 140 mm
Script: Humanistic Cursive
Script: Text written by multiple hands; rubrics written by multiple hands in both humanistic bookhand and Gothic rotunda; final leaves (fols. 173-176) also written in a humanistic bookhand
Decoration: Blank spaces of six to nine lines, preceding each chapter, used for rubrics in red through fol. 94v, and after that left blank; spaces left for decorated initials, two to six lines, with guide letters, with a few initials and paragraph marks in red in fols. 11r-19v
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2100, no. 1.
Provenance: Sotheby's (catalog entry from a Sotheby's sale, lot 333, inside front cover); Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, the contents of which was turned over to the Free Library of Philadelphia; stamp of the Mercantile Library on fols. 2r and 176r; pencil note on the inside of back cover reads: "Macdonald 3/72 repair CN from the Mercantile Library"

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_240.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_240/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia