Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Biblical commentary on the Old Testament--I Kings - Esther

Authors

• Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86113661.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Kelker, Rudolph F. (Rudolph Frederick), 1820-1906, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00012170.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 46
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 129

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript contains a biblical commentary on select books of the Old Testament.

Notes

• The first end sheet has become detached
   
• Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Debra T. Cashion for the cataloging of this manuscript and to Prof. Ann Matter and Eric Knibbs for their assistance in identifying the text
   

Extent

Iii+65+iii; 285 x 195 mm bound to 297 x 213 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto and upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (12), 4 (6), 5 (12), 6 (11, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal lower right corner verso; fols. 12, 36, 54

Binding

Nineteenth-century half-brown morocco with green cloth over pasteboard covers; black morocco label attached to front cover with title "Comment Super paralipomonenon et Esther" and "Rud. F Kelker."

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead, every line ruled; two columns of sixty lines; prickings visible; space left for initials throughout; written area: 210 x 130 mm

Decoration

Marginalia throughout

Script

Informal glossata

Provenance

• Rudolph F. Kelker, Harrisburg, PA, his sale (Philadelphia 11 June 1908, no. 44); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936;"Rud. F Kelker." stamped on cover below title; bookplates of Rudolph F. Kelker and John Frederick Lewis pasted on the inside of the cover; catalogue entries pasted onto inside of front and back covers; pencil notes in Lewis hand on recto of first endsheet: "This manuscript is neatly written on 130 vellum folios in two columns 61 or 62 lines to the page. It was written about 1350 and is a commentary upon the books of Chronicles and Esther. Bought by me at the sale of Rudolph F. Kelker Library 6/11/08."
   

Related resources

• 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. 2048, no. 129.
• 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. 52, no. 46.

Keywords

• Bible
• 14th century
• France
• Scripture
• Biblical
• French

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner's bookplates, John Frederick Lewis and Rudolph F. Kelker
• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil, in John Frederick Lewis' hand: "This manuscript is neatly written on 130 vellum folios in two columns 61 or 62 lines to the page. It was written about 1350 and is a commentary upon the books of Chronicles and Esther. Bought by me at the sale of Rudolph F. Kelker Library 6/11/08."
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil, in John Frederick Lewis' hand: "This manuscript is neatly written on 130 vellum folios in two columns 61 or 62 lines to the page. It was written about 1350 and is a commentary upon the books of Chronicles and Esther. Bought by me at the sale of Rudolph F. Kelker Library 6/11/08."
• Inside back cover — Print catalog entry