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

Title

Periochae

Authors

• Livy (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79015690.html)

Other related names

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

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 150
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 173

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Extent

I+36+i; 266 x 184 mm bound to 275 x 187 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (10), 4 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal lower inner margin verso; fols: 10, 20, 30

Binding

Original gold tooled Milanese morocco over wooden boards

Layout

Frame-ruled in hard point; one column of thirty-two lines; written area: 170 x 104 mm

Decoration

One large initial in colors formed of an intricate vine pattern on a gold ground (fol. 1r); thirteen small initials in gold on colored ground with white foliage; two-line capitals in red and blue throughout

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Owned early by Domini Bartholomei de co(?)lumbiis (circa 1500); ex libris Johannis Francisci et Gregorii Sanctiiermani Corbi Fratruum, 1709; Collections of the Dukes of Altemps; Marchese Patrizi sale, Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1907, no. 96; to Leighton; described in an English bookseller's catalogue (Tregaskis?); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; name of the original owner on front flyleaf recto, domini Bartholomei de co(?)lumbis, has been scored through; inscription on recto of back flyleaf: "Ex libris Johannis Francisci et Gregorii Sanctiiermani Corbi Fratruu[m] anno 1709"
   

Keywords

• History
• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Periochae

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Provenance notation "domini Bartholomei de co(?)lumbis"
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 22r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 24v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 26v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 30v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 32v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 34v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 35v — Illuminated initial S
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Provenance notation "domini Bartholomei de co(?)lumbis"