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

Title

Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome); Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers)

Authors

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126290.html)
• Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79124709.html)

Other related names

• Abezier, Johann, former owner
• Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82255127.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 81
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 118

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains an early fifteenth-century copy of Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome) and Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers).

Notes

• Written by order of Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia in Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24)
   

Extent

I+160+i; 329 x 220 bound to 345 x 244

Foliation

Modern foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1-16 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal lower right verso enclosed in banner; fols. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150

Binding

Seventeenth-century Belgian or French calf

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead hard point in one column of 32 lines; prickings extant; written area: 213 x 150 mm

Decoration

Six-line and two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue with puzzle and foliate design throughout; manicules and rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic textualis

Colophon

Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo Quadringentesimo vigesimotercio. Reverendus in chr[ist]o pater ac d[omi]n[u]s d[omi]n[u]s Johannes Ep[iscop]us Warmien[sis] hunc libru[m] videlicet Vitas patru[m]. per me. A. . scribe mandavit.

Provenance

• Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia, Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24); in France by ca. 1800; bought by the Earl of Ashburnham in 1872; his sale, London, 1899, no. 160 to Leighton for George Dunn; his sale, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 678; to Young; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

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. 2046, no. 118.
• 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), pp. 88-89, no. 81.
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 23.
• Schmidt, Peter Lebrecht. "Eine Cicero-Handschrift des Ermländischen Bischofs Johannes Abeczier." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Bd. 109 (1966): 170-184.

Keywords

• Accounts
• 15th century
• German
• Gothic
• Puzzle initial
• Germany
• Church Fathers
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome); Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers)
• fol. 158r — Augustine of Hippo, Letter to Jerome

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Earl of Ashburnham, 1897
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in ink and pencil
• fol. 1r — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 13r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial T
• fol. 43v — Decorated initial B
• fol. 43v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial T
• fol. 81r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 81v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 124r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 124r — Decorated initial S
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in ink and pencil