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

Title

Fragment of a lectionary

Other 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 Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

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 344x247

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (7, +7), 2 (8), 3 (9, +9)

Signatures

Visible on fol. 7v, 15v, and 23v

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Trimmed but visible on fol. 7v

Binding

German marbled paper boards, circa 1800

Layout

Two columns of forty-four lines; one half leaf of an unrelated manuscript bound in; prickings visible; written area: 227x165

Decoration

Initials in red and green with penwork foliate extensions; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Fragment of a Lectionary
• fol. 24r — Unidentified text

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