Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 256

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4593

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 256

Title:

Breviary, Cistercian use

Place:

Bavaria?, Southern Germany

Bavaria TGN

Date:

1318-1325

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 286; 199 x 144 mm bound to 213 x 153 mm; parchment

Note:

Binding: Heavy beveled wooden boards covered with brown blind-stamped leather, probably in the sixteenth century
Layout: Single column twenty-six to twenty-nine lines; lined in ink (substantially darker on some pages); frame ruled; prickings visible on some pages
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Script: At least three scribes
Decoration: Red rubrics; one-line initials within the text throughout; two-line initials at the beginning of sections, all red for most of the manuscript, but alternating with a faded yellow or orange until fol. 35v (end of quire 4)

Keyword:

textura (Gothic script)

German (culture, style, period)

Christianity

Germany

Breviaries

Liturgics

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_256.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_256/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia