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

Title

Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers)

Authors

• Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79124709.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
• 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)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 82
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 119

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a copy of Vitae patrum dated 1464.

Notes

• Binding is partially detached
   

Watermark

Very clear watermark on fol. 132r; possibly Tower

Extent

I+132+i; 315 x 220 mm bound to 327 x 226 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; earlier foliation upper center margin recto

Collation

1-11 (12)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal lower corner verso: fols. 12, 48, 60, 72

Binding

Early nineteenth-century German paper boards

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of forty-two to forty-eight lines; written area: 223 x 141 mm

Decoration

Blank spaces left for initials; rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Colophon

Explicit vita scti ieronimi presbiteri 1464

Provenance

• Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 184; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 526; his sale Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, 817, 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. 2046, no. 119.
• 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. 89, no. 82.

Keywords

• Biography
• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Gothic
• Colophon
• Church Fathers
• History
• Watermark

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers)

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations in pencil
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry