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

Title

Flores; religious miscellany

Authors

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059107.html)
• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126290.html)
• Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021401.html)
• Richard, of St. Victor, -1173 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076053.html)
• Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50024763.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Ashworth, Benjamin, former owner
• Kelker, Rudolph Frederick, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 27
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 134

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This manuscript is a miscellany of religious texts by the Church Fathers including Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine of Hippo, Gregory of Nyssa, Richard of St. Victor, Saint Jerome, and Anselm of Canterbury.

Extent

Ii+161+ii; 315 x 210 mm bound to 323 x 218 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt back, in cloth case

Layout

Two columns of forty-nine to sixty-one lines; written area 227 x 146 mm

Decoration

Some initials in red and blue with penwork extensions and tracery; plain initials and chapter headings in red and blue; underlining and rubrication in red

Script

Gothic

Provenance

• Sold by Benjamin Ashworth, Philadelphia, to Rudolph Frederick Kelker, Harrisburg, Oct. 14, 1873; sale, Luther R. Kelker, Esq., June 11, 1908, no. 45; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; sale from Ashworth to Kelker is noted on an inscription at the bottom of folio 1
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Flanders
• Flemish
• Christian
• Miscellany
• Theology
• Church Fathers
• Gothic

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Two line decorated initial O
• fol. 6v — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 10r — Two line decorated initial S