Lewis E 144 Fragment of a lectionary
Title
Fragment of a lectionaryOther related names
- Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92013806.html)
- Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
- Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
- Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
Funders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
Lewis E 144(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- deRicci: 27
Publisher
Free Library of PhiladelphiaLanguage
LatinOrigin
12th century
- Place
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Germany
Summary
This is a fragment of a lectionary, written in Germany in the 12th century.
Notes
- The first quire in the fragment is numbered IIII, so it appears that three quires are missing from the beginning of the fragment
- Folio 24 contains unidentified text, is bound through the first column, and the text on the verso is written upside-down
Extent
I+24+i; 334x239 bound to 344x247Foliation
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right rectoCollation
1 (7, +7), 2 (8), 3 (9, +9)Signatures
Visible on fol. 7v, 15v, and 23vSupport
ParchmentCatchwords
Trimmed but visible on fol. 7vBinding
German marbled paper boards, circa 1800Layout
Decoration
Initials in red and green with penwork foliate extensions; rubrication in red
Script
Provenance
- Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 21; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 406; his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 266, to Bull; 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. 2029, no. 144.
- 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. 158, no. 144.
Keywords
- Lectionary
- German
- Christian
- 12th century
- Germany
- Gothic
- Fragment
- Liturgy
- Scripture
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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- Text
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Decorations
- Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
- Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry
- fol. 1r — Notation in ink, "Phillipps MS 406"
- fol. 2r — Two-line red and green initial R
- fol. 3v — Two-line red and green initial O
- fol. 5v — Large red and green initial L
- fol. 7r — Large red and green initial X
- fol. 9r — Two-line red and green initial D
- fol. 10v — Two-line red and green initial E
- fol. 12r — Three-line red and green initial S
- fol. 13v — Three-line red and green initial D
- fol. 14v — Three-line red and green initial S
- fol. 15r — Three-line red and green initial V
- fol. 16r — Two-line red and green initial Q
- fol. 17v — Two-line red and green initial M
- fol. 18v — Large red and green intermarginal initial I
- fol. 20r — Three-line red and green initial C
- fol. 21r — Three-line red and green initial V
- fol. 22v — Three-line red and green initial S
- fol. 23r — Three-line red and green initial M
- Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry
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