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

Title

Index to moralia in job; Legenda sanctorum (Lives of the saints)

Authors

• Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79056801)
• Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126290)

Other related names

• Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92013806.html)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.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 76
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 124

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century German copy of the index to Pope Gregory I's Moralia in Job and Augustine of Hippo's Legenda sanctorum.

Notes

• Earlier folio numbering begins with number 291
   

Extent

V+137+iii; 307 x 205 mm bound to 315 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; earlier foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

Uncertain

Support

Paper

Binding

Early nineteenth-century German paper boards

Layout

Forty-to-forty-eight lines per page, double columns; initials, paragraph marks, underlining, and capitals touched up in red; unlined, with column guides in drypoint; written area: 233 x 145 mm

Decoration

Initials, paragraph marks, underlining, and capitals touched up in red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 581; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 394, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2047, no. 124.
• 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. 83 no.76 (+ Supplement).

Keywords

• Biography
• Christian
• Germany
• 15th century
• Gothic book hand
• Paper
• Church Fathers
• History

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