Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 243
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4582
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 243
- Title:
- Bible, glossed minor prophets; Missal
- Place:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1220-1230
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iii+90+ii; 330 x 228 mm bound to 340 x 232 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- H.P. Kraus (Firm)
- Note:
- Many of the lower edges of the pages have been repaired with newer parchment
Three front flyleaves, two eighteenth-century paper followed by a parchment fragment from a thirteenth-century missal; two back flyleaves, eighteenth-century paper
Binding: Early eighteenth-century mottled leather, gilt-stamped spine, labeled IN XI[I] PROPH. MINO[R]; loose hinges, leather deteriorating along spine
Layout: Three columns of fifty-six lines, frame-ruled in lead, prickings visible in inner and lower margins; biblical text written in the center column in larger script on alternate lines; text begins above the line; written area: 204 x 140 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Script: Larger script for biblical text, smaller text for gloss
Decoration: Twelve historiated initials, two approximately twelve-line decorated initials (fol. 1r), one five-line decorated initial (fol. 60v); running titles in alternating red and blue letters; alternating red and blue flourished two-line initials throughout; alternating red and blue paragraph markers, some flourished, throughout; missal fragment (Flyleaf 3) has one five-line initial, one...
Provenance: Alexander William or James Ludovic Lindsay, Earls of Crawford (1812-1830 and 1847-1913 respectively); engraved bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earls of Crawford, inside front cover; sold by H.P. Kraus to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1969 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_243.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_243/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
