Lewis E 17 Armorial
Title
ArmorialOther related names
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
- Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
Funders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
Lewis E 17(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Free Library of PhiladelphiaLanguage
GermanOrigin
16th century
- Place
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Austro-Bavaria
Summary
This manuscript contains an armorial of sixteenth-century Austro-Bavarian nobility.
Notes
- Manuscript is listed in DeRicci on page 2098 of the 1937 edition under the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent
Ii+240+i; 285 x 196 mm bound to 293 x 200 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil, lower and upper right recto; inconsistent contemporary foliation in ink upper right recto; inconsistent contemporary foliation in ink lower middle rectoCollation
Structure uncertainSupport
PaperBinding
VellumLayout
Decoration
Heraldic crests and shields in various colors; woodcut stamps with hand-coloring and some pen infilling; tipped-in woodcuts, including a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian (fol. 1)
Script
Provenance
- Two modern pastedowns at the front, "From the Count of Leiders Monastery" and "From the Monastery of Attel, near Wasserburg on the Tun, in Bavaria"; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Related resources
- Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 22, no. 17 (Plate VI).
Keywords
- Armorial
- 16th century
- German
- Germany
- Heraldry
- Woodcuts
- Paper
- Legal
- History
- Illustration
Licenses
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- Text
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- Text
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Inside front cover
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Decoration: Portrait of Emperor Maximilian
Inside back cover
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