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

Title

De forma honestae vitae; De institutione monachorum

Authors

• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004066.html)

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92013806.html)
• 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 25
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 117

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a collection of texts by Basil of Caesarea.

Watermark

i10 ii10 iii10 iv2 (large tear in fol. 32 followed by two stubs)

Extent

I+32+i; 254 x 183 mm bound to 257 x 189 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (10), 3 (8), 4 (6, -5 -6)

Support

Paper

Binding

Nineteenth-century German paper boards

Layout

Frame-ruled in hardpoint; two columns of thirty-nine to forty-four lines; written area: 176 x 127 mm

Decoration

One- to four-line initials in red throughout; titles in red; rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Benedictine-Marienmünster, archdiocese of Paderborn (identifying inscription dated circa 1600); Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 564; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 68, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• German
• Gothic
• Germany
• Theology
• Church Fathers

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — De institutione monachorum; explicit: institiua monachorum sancti basilij cesariensis episcopi [30r]
• fol. 30v — De forma honestae vitae; incipit: epistola sancti basilij episcopi de forma honeste vite

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Catalogue Description
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Catalogue Description