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

Title

Life of Holy Francis and his companions

Other related names

• Christ, Victor, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 258
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Italy?

Summary

This manuscript is a fourteenth-century Italian copy of Life of Holy Francis and his companions.

Notes

• Catchword on 48v does not match the first words on 49r
   
• Script and written area changes slightly after quire 7 (fol. 88), which may indicate the manuscript was two separate manuscripts bound together
   

Extent

I+120+i; 206 x 142 mm bound to 216 x 144 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Four quires of twelve leaves, one quire of sixteen, uncertain after that

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Bottom center; 12v; 24v; 36v; 48v; 60v; 76v

Layout

Rubrication in red; prickings visible; three-line initials in red; written area: 130 x 98 mm

Provenance

• Victor Christ Library; Purchased by the Free Library through the George S. Pepper Fund
   

Keywords

• Biography
• 14th century
• Christian
• Italy
• History

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Provenance label "From the Library of Victor Christ"
• Inside front cover — Free Library of Philadelphia Bookplate
• fol. 89v — Notations in pencil