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

Title

Liturgical text; Manipulus curatorum (Handbook for priests)

Authors

• Guido, de Monte Rocherii, active 14th century (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90667250.html)

Other related names

• Wright, Harrison, former owner
• 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 78
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 141

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany?

Summary

This manuscript is an early fifteenth-century copy, possibly from Germany, of the Manipulus curatorum (Handbook for Priests).

Notes

• The spine has been redone and the original backbone is in the case
   
• Parchment guards in the center of every quire
   

Extent

I+155+i; 209 x 138 mm bound to 216 x 140 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

1-9 (16), 10 (16, -12 -13 -14 -15 -16)

Support

Paper

Binding

Original wooden boards and stamped leather (stars, rosettes, fleurs-de-lys, lions rampant, bulls), backed with leaves of a twelfth-century liturgical manuscript; original vellum label on top cover; remains of clasp, in cloth case

Layout

One column of thirty-three lines; rubriction and two- and three-line initials in red; drypoint frame-ruled; written area: 153 x 96 mm

Decoration

Initials, paragraph marks, rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Harrison Wright, Wilkes-Barre, PA, his sale, Philadelphia, June 11, 1908, no. 239; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; the name of Harrison Wright is inscribed on the front with a date of 1869
   

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. 2051, no. 141.
• 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. 85, no. 78.

Keywords

• 12th century
• 15th century
• Christian
• Germany
• Notable binding
• Original binding
• Theology
• Liturgy

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