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

Title

Historia hierosolymitana (History of Jerusalem)

Authors

• Jacques, de Vitry, approximately 1170-1240 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85035238.html)

Other related names

• Count Archinto, of Milan, former owner
• 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/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 138
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1611342
• deRicci: 185

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Milan, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a humanist copy of the first book of Jacques de Vitry's thirteenth-century history, on Jerusalem or the Orient. The manuscript is written in one hundred chapters whose titles are listed in a table of contents at the beginning of the volume. The colophon at the end of the table of contents (fol. 5r) records that Johannes de Camenago copied the manuscript in 1459 in Milan. At least one leaf of the preface (before fol. 6) is missing, perhaps taken for its decoration. Occasional corrections and notes appear in the margins.

Notes

• Flyleaves are eighteenth-century parchment
   
• Flyleaves foliated as f. 1 and f. 141
   

Extent

I+139+i; 213 x 152 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4), 2 (2, -1), 3 (6, +5 +6), 4-19 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords by the scribe in quires 3-18, lower right last verso

Binding

Eighteenth-century green vellum; gilt spine; spine label "HISTORIA IEROSOLIMITANA"; edges sprinkled with red; joints cracked, front joint almost completely broken

Layout

One column of twenty-eight lines, ruled in hard point and lead with double vertical bounding lines; lacking first leaf of text (between extant fols. 5 and 6); written area: 122 x 75 mm

Decoration

Three-line initials in red with purple flourishes or blue with red flourishes at the beginning of each chapter; rubrication in red

Script

Humanistic

Scribe: Johannes de Camenago

Colophon

Scriptum opus p[raese]ns fuit per me Johannem de Camenago M[edio]l[an]en[sem] 1459 (fol. 5r)

Provenance

• Count Archinto, of Milan (bookplate with "Archineata" on the scroll at the top, "Count Archinti" in pencil below, inside front cover); Thomas Phillipps, MS 24276 (number in ink, fol. 1r); 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. 2059, no. 185.
• 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. 151-152, no. 138.
• Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Iter Italicum, Volume 5 (Brill, 1990), p. 366, ms. 138.
• Zaggia, Massimo, "Copisti e committenti di codici a Milano nella prima meta del Quarttrocento," Libri & Documenti 21, no. 3 (1995), p. 30.

Keywords

• History
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Humanistic
• Jewish
• Notable binding

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Table of Contents
• fol. 6r — Dedication [lacking first leaf]
• fol. 7v — Historia Hierosolymitana; incipit: Terra sancta promissionis deo amabi ... [fol. 7v]; explicit: … et subsidium de die in diem expectantes. Laus altissimo deo. [fol. 140v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Count Archinto of Milan