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

Title

Fragment of a Martyrology

Other related names

• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88244649.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 153
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 182

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a fragment of a thirteenth-century martyrology.

Notes

• Fragment begins with the 22nd of February and runs to the 15th of September
   
• Folios are severely damaged in outer margins; extant folios are of variable sizes
   
• The collation is uncertain; folios 9 and 16 are now single but may once have been conjoined, in which case the collation formula would be 1-3 (8), 4 (6)
   

Extent

30; bound to 257 x 160 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

1 (9, +9), 2 (6), 3 (9, +1), 4 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Italian vellum

Layout

Frame-ruled in hard point; one column of twenty-nine lines; outer margins of folios damaged

Script

Three- and four-line capitals in red throughout; one large decorated initial in red (fol. 29v)

Provenance

• Obtained from W. M. Voynich by 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. 2058, no. 182.
• 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. 166, no. 153 (+ Supplement).
• Lattanzi, Angela Daneu. "Di un manoscritto miniato esequito a Palermo nel terzo quarto del sec. XII e d'alcuni altri manoscritti, con osservazioni sulla scrittura siciliana pregotica." Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia 32, nos. 4 & 5 (1964): 1-24. See p. 19 and fig. 23 (fol. 29v).

Keywords

• Accounts
• 13th century
• Italian
• Fragment
• Italy
• Theology
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Fragment of a Martyrology; incipit: Apud sicilia[m] s[an]cto[rum] m[a]rtyrdo[m] septuaginta nove[m], quibus…ciano p[er] diversa torm[en]ta confessionis

Decorations

• fol. 29v — Decorated initial N