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

Lewis E 203 Harmony of the Bible

Title

Harmony of the Bible

Authors

Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612 (http://viaf.org/viaf/72341504/#Broughton,_Hugh,_1549-1612)

Other related names

J. & J. Leighton, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/263208235)
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 203
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

English

Origin

Late 16th century

Place: England

Summary

This manuscript is a sixteenth-century parchment scroll (formatted left-to-right) consisting of thirteen membranes and measuring just over twenty-four feet long (7.435 meters) and between 480 and 500 mm tall. The text presents a history of the Bible up to the time of Jesus Christ, but is incomplete, beginning with the Flood.

Extent

500 mm x 7435 mm

Support

Parchment

Layout

Multiple columns, blind ruled on most membranes

Decoration

Large penwork drawings illustrating the Book of Daniel and the apocalyptic beast, surmounted by the bicephalous eagle (membrane 8)

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

J. and J. Leighton, London (cat. 14, no. 422); purchased May 23, 1930 by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keywords

England
English
Damage
Scroll
16th century
Biblical

Licenses

Text

These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 203: Harmony of the Bible are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

URL

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Text

To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 203: Harmony of the Bible. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

URL

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Decorations

Membrane 8 Side 1 — Large penwork drawings illustrating the Book of Daniel and the apocalyptic beast, surmounted by the bicephalous eagle

Images

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Roll Side 2
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Roll Side 3
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Roll Side 4
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Membrane 1 Side 1
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Membrane 2 Side 1
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Membrane 3 Side 1
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Membrane 4 Side 1
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Membrane 5 Side 1
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Membrane 6 Side 1
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Membrane 7 Side 1
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Membrane 8 Side 1
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Decoration: Large penwork drawings illustrating the Book of Daniel and the apocalyptic beast, surmounted by the bicephalous eagle

Membrane 9 Side 1
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Membrane 10 Side 1
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Membrane 11 Side 1
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Membrane 12 Side 1
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Membrane 1 Side 2
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Membrane 3 Side 2
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Membrane 4 Side 2
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Membrane 5 Side 2
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Membrane 6 Side 2
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Membrane 7 Side 2
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Membrane 8 Side 2
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Membrane 9 Side 2
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Membrane 10 Side 2
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Membrane 11 Side 2
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Membrane 12 Side 2
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