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

Title

De claustro animae (The cloister of the soul)

Authors

• Hugh, of Fouilloy (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90695188.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Elliott, G., former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 135
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 143

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains Hugh of Fouilloy's De claustro animae (The Cloister of the Soul).

Extent

Ii+183+ii; 140 x 90 mm bound to 151 x 100 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; modern numbering of quires in pencil lower margin center recto; contemporary rubricated running heads for book numbers; contemporary quire numbering lower corner recto in the hand of the scribe

Collation

Originally quired in gatherings of twelve; disordered quires throughout; structure uncertain

Signatures

Lower corner right recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Evidence of catchwords in fol. 33, horizontal inner margin verso

Binding

19th century vellum, in cloth case

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead; one column of twenty-five lines; written area: 100 x 90 mm

Decoration

Red and blue initials throughout with pen-flourishing in red or blue; rubrication throughout; some marginalia

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• Owned by G. Elliott, ca. 1700?; no. 59 in an English bookseller's cat., ca. 1905?; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Christian
• England
• Treatise
• Notable binding
• Theology
• Notable binding

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 3r — Large decorated initial R
• fol. 4r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 6v — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 38r — Large decorated initial L
• fol. 38v — Large decorated initial Q
• fol. 53r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 59v — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 66v — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 79r — Large decorated initial N
• fol. 82r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 129r — Large decorated initial C
• fol. 140r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 142r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 145v — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 152v — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 160r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 161r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 163r — Large decorated initial I
• fol. 168r — Large decorated initial I