Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 246

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DS ID:

DS4585

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 246

Title:

De differentia translationis nostrae ab hebraica littera veteris testamentum

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349

Nicholas of Lyra WIKIDATA

Girolami, Remigio de'

Remigio dei Girolami WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany?

Germany TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+182+i; 286 x 206 mm bound to 300 x 222 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Mrs E. J. Hooper

Mrs. E.J. Hooper WIKIDATA

Missing leaves

Note:

Marginal notes and annotations in a contemporary and later hands
Evidence of historic damage and repairs to parchment
Two folios excised between fols. 18v and 19r
Binding: Repaired 1972 (see inside back cover); post-medieval wooden boards with brown leather spine; edges stained blue; evidence of clasps; stamped on spine "NICOLAUS DE LYRA DE MYSTERIIS SCRIPTURE SACRE"
Layout: One column of thirty-six lines; ruled in ink; pricking visible; written area: 219 x 132 mm
Script: Gothic--cursiva
Decoration: Two colored initials with pen-work decoration on fol. 1r; numerous colored initials throughout
Provenance: "Mrs E. J. Hooper" inscribed in pencil on fol. 1r; George S. Pepper Fund, Free Library of Philadelphia (per inscription on fol. 1r)

Keyword:

Missing leaves

German (culture, style, period)

Sacred works

Germany

Charts, diagrams, etc.

Gothic (Medieval)

Commentaries

Fifteenth century

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_246.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_246/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia