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

Title

Bible

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• Fenwick, Thomas Fitzroy Phillipps, 1856-1938, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/28418540)
• 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 40
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 14

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy?

Summary

This manuscript is an early fourteenth-century New Testament, possibly written in Italy. The end of the manuscript, including the end of Acts and the Apocalypse, is lacking, and a nonbiblical work, the Summa contra hereticos, appears between the Gospels and the Epistles. It is decorated with rubrics, running titles, and scrollwork initials in red.

Extent

Iii+142+iii; 147 x 103 mm bound to 155 x 108 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (13, +13), 2 (12), 3 (10), 4-12 (12)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century French brown calf with gilt dentelles and red-marbled endpapers; mottled edges on leaves

Layout

Two columns of thirty-nine lines; hard point ruling, prickings visible; written area: 147 x 103 mm

Decoration

Red-ink scroll-work initials throughout; place left for an illuminated initial at the beginning of Matthew

Script

Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a

Provenance

• Unidentified Jesuit College, 1767; Sold by Thomas Thorpe (Cat. 1836, no. 1268) to Sir Thomas Phillipps; T. FitzRoy Fenwick, 1891; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Bible
• 14th century
• Italian
• Christian
• Italy
• Scripture
• Biblical
• Scroll-work initial

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 5r — Gospels
• fol. 67v — Text, beginning with Heretici qui habent errorem suum
• fol. 72r — Summa contra hereticos
• fol. 84r — Epistles

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis