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

Title

Tobias (History of Tobias)

Authors

• Matthew, of Vendôme, approximately 1130- (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142736.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 154
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 148

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy?

Summary

This manuscript is an allegorical account in elegiac verse of the Biblical story of Tobit and Tobias, probably written in Italy in the fourteenth century, in rotunda script. The text is undecorated, even lacking its main initials.

Notes

• Paper flyleaves
   

Extent

I+40+i; 207 x 146 mm bound to 215 x 148 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-4 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Bottom center verso, fols. 10v, 20v, 30v

Binding

Modern wooden boards; sheep spine damaged at head

Layout

One column of twenty-eight lines, prickings visible; written area: 140 x 90 mm

Decoration

Blank spaces with guide letters for capitals

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Unidentified English armorial bookplate with the motto, in Deo confide, on front flyleaf; Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 23, 1906, no. 439; to Maggs; (directly to?) 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. 2052, no. 148.
• 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), pp. 166-67, no. 154.

Keywords

• Literature -- Poetry
• Italian
• Italy
• 14th century
• Biblical
• Allegory

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tobias; incipit: Ex agro veteri virtutum semina morum; explicit: Expletum Tobiam qui leget instet Tobiam merita religione sequi.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate
• fol. 9r — Manicule
• fol. 21v — Manicule
• fol. 22r — Manicule
• fol. 25r — Manicule
• fol. 26v — Manicule
• fol. 30v — Manicule
• fol. 35r — Manicule
• fol. 36v — Manicule
• fol. 37v — Manicule
• fol. 38r — Manicule
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis