Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 247

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4586

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 247

Title:

Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings); Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)

Author:

William, of Malmesbury, approximately 1090-1143

William of Malmesbury WIKIDATA

Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154

Geoffrey of Monmouth WIKIDATA

Place:

Cirencester?, England

Cirencester TGN

Date:

1185-1215

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+55+viii; 266 x 171 mm bound to 274 x 191 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Auchinleck, Alexander Boswell, Lord, 1707-1782

Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck WIKIDATA

J. & J. Leighton

J. & J. Leighton WIKIDATA

Moss, William E.

William E. Moss WIKIDATA

Griscom, Acton

Acton Griscom WIKIDATA

Samuel Frederick Houston

Samuel Frederick Houston WIKIDATA

Mrs. L.M.C. Smith

Eleanor Houston Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Loose flyleaves
A leaf from this manuscript in Columbia University (Plimpton MS 267)
A leaf from this manuscript is in the Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis Textual Leaf VII:196)
Initials excised from fols. 51r, 54v, and 55r
Early damage and repairs to parchment
Margins trimmed away from a number of folios
Numerous folios missing
Modern collation notes on flyleaf 2 recto
Binding: Eighteenth century brown calf over wooden boards; edges of boards gilt tooled; edges of text block stained red; stamped in gold on the spine: "GALFRIDI HISTORIA MS"
Layout: Two columns of fifty-six lines; lead point ruling; pricking visible, inner margin; written area: 211 x 120 mm
Script: Protogothic
Script: Change in hand from fol. 26r
Decoration: One large initial with penwork decoration (fol. 1r); numerous red and blue decorated initials with penwork decoration and marginal flourishes throughout; occasional marginal drawings throughout
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. 1161, no. 6.
Related resource: A. Griscom (ed.), The Historia Regum Britannia of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London and New York, 1929), pp. 37-41, pl. 5.
Related resource: Review: "A. Griscom (ed.), The Historia Regum Britannia of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London and New York, 1929)," Romantic Review, vol. 21 (1930), p. 354
Related resource: Julia C. Crick, The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, vol. 3, A Summary Catalogue if the Manuscripts (Cambridge, 1989), p. 297.
Related resource: Siân Echard, "Whose History? Naming Practices in the Transmission of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie," Arthuriana, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue in Honor of Edward Donald Kennedy (2012), p. 13 (article: pp. 8-24).
Related resource: Lydia Yaitsky Kertz, "Fragments of Malmesbury: A Re-evaluation of Manuscript Lewis E.247 Based on Recently Discovered Parchment Leaves," Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History, vol. 16 (2013), pp. 227-247, 313.
Provenance: Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (1732; ownership note on flyleaf i); J. & J. Leighton (lot 107 in their 1912 sale); bought by Colonel William E. Moss (nineteenth century); ceded to Acton Griscom, Highpoint NJ (nineteenth century; ownership note on flyleaf i); given to Samuel Frederick Houston (1946); given by his daughter, Mrs L.M.C. Smith, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in...

Keyword:

Thirteenth century

Missing leaves

England

Twelfth century

History

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_247.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_247/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia