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

Title

Armorial

Other related names

• 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 17
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

German

Origin

Place

Austro-Bavaria

Summary

This manuscript contains an armorial of sixteenth-century Austro-Bavarian nobility.

Notes

• Manuscript is listed in DeRicci on page 2098 of the 1937 edition under the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
   

Extent

Ii+240+i; 285 x 196 mm bound to 293 x 200 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower and upper right recto; inconsistent contemporary foliation in ink upper right recto; inconsistent contemporary foliation in ink lower middle recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Paper

Binding

Vellum

Layout

Two lines of five or six (fols. 2-4, 214-223) or three lines of twelve (fols. 5-178) heraldic crests and shields; text frame-ruled in lead/hardpoint (fols. 179-213, 238-240) in thirty-one to forty-four lines, written area: 237 x 135 mm; lists ruled in ink (fols. 224-237), written area: 235 x 132 mm

Decoration

Heraldic crests and shields in various colors; woodcut stamps with hand-coloring and some pen infilling; tipped-in woodcuts, including a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian (fol. 1)

Script

Secretary

Provenance

• Two modern pastedowns at the front, "From the Count of Leiders Monastery" and "From the Monastery of Attel, near Wasserburg on the Tun, in Bavaria"; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• 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. 22, no. 17 (Plate VI).

Keywords

• Armorial
• 16th century
• German
• Germany
• Heraldry
• Woodcuts
• Paper
• Legal
• History
• Illustration

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Portrait of Emperor Maximilian