Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 242

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DS ID:

DS4581

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 242

Title:

Bible

Artist:

Johannes Grusch Atelier

Johannes Grusch Atelier WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+447; 175 x 120 mm bound to 185 x 125 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Patou, Johannes

Johannes Patou WIKIDATA

Alphonso, Diego

Diego Alphonso WIKIDATA

Levinson, Harry

Harry Levinson WIKIDATA

Note:

Several obits on rear pastedown: Obit i[n]noce[n]ci II xii die septe[m]br[i] a[n]no d[omi]ni mccclxii; obiit petris Cardinalis hispanie . . . mcclxxiiii; obit nepos [?] domini
Binding: Fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Spanish brown calf with blind tooling; spine damaged at head and tail; remnants of two clasps
Layout: Written in two columns of fifty-one lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; edges trimmed; written area: 120 x 83 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Nine historiated initials similar to the work of the Johannes Grusch atelier in Paris, at the beginning of Genesis (fol. 3v), Psalms (fol. 184v), Proverbs (fol. 204v), Isaiah (fol. 234r), Hosea (fol. 294v), Maccabees I (fol. 310v), Matthew (fol. 328r), Romans (fol. 365r), and Acts (fol. 387v); added illustrations by Spanish hands of episodes from the Infancy Cycle in the...
Related resource: Branner, Robert, "The Johannes Grusch Atelier and the Continental Origins of the William of Devon Painter," Art Bulletin 54, no. 1 (March 1972), pp. 24-30.
Related resource: Branner, Robert, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles, California Studies in the History of Art 18 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 82-86, fig. 216.
Provenance: Johannes Patou, Cambrai? (Johannes Patou written five times in various hands on the flyleaf verso; fol. 204v, at the end of the Psalms: Joannes patou me ex urbe opule[n]tissima (trecis?) Cameracum (Cambrai) transtulit; signature, fol. 445v); Diego Alphonso, Spain (fourteenth or fifteenth century, signature, fol. 445v) ; purchased by the Free Library from Harry Levinson (Beverly...

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Bible

Spanish (culture or style)

France

Spain

Historiated initials

French (culture or style)

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_242.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_242/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia