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

Title

Bible, Epistles

Other related names

• Williams, Theodore, 1785-1875, former owner
• Gilbert, W. J., former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/49174603)
• 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 44
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 18

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Bruges?, Belgium

Summary

This manuscript is a copy of the Epistles of the New Testament, written in bâtarde in Belgium, possibly Bruges, in the late 15th century. It is decorated with one historiated initial and red and blue initials throughout.

Extent

Ii+180+ii; 140 x 88 mm bound to 146 x 97 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1-17 (8), 18 (10), 19 (1, +1), 20 (1, +1), 21-24 (8)

Signatures

Modern signatures in pencil, lower gutter

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco by Charles Lewis (died 1836) with gilt insignias of the Rev. T. Williams on front and back comers, gilt edges; stamped in gold on spine: S. PAULI EPISTOLAE. CODEX VETUST. SUPRA MEMBRANIS

Layout

One column of twenty-two lines; lead-point ruling; written area: 98 x 60 mm

Decoration

One historiated initial with Saint Paul (fol. 1r); one six-line puzzle initial in red and blue (fol. 5v); one-line to five-line red or blue initials throughout; rubrication in red

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Rev. T. Williams, sold (London, 1827, no. 656) to Cochran (cat. 1829, no. 13); D.S. Ker sale (London, Feb. 1. 1848, II, no. 1115); sold at Sotheby's (London, ca. 1900); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale (Philadelphia, 7 June 1909, no. 249); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Bible
• 15th century
• Christian
• Biblical
• Belgium
• Historiated initial
• Puzzle initial
• Flemish
• Dutch
• Scripture

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Historiated initial P, Saint Paul