Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 25: De forma honestae vitae; De institutione monachorum contributor Diane Biunno cataloger Erin Connelly Council on Library and Information Resources Free Library of Philadelphia These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 25: De forma honestae vitae; De institutione monachorum 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/. 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 25: De forma honestae vitae; De institutione monachorum. 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. United States Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts Lewis E 25 117 This manuscript contains a collection of texts by Basil of Caesarea. Latin De forma honestae vitae; De institutione monachorum Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 former owner Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847 former owner Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 former owner Lewis, Anne Baker 1v De institutione monachorum institiua monachorum sancti basilij cesariensis episcopi [30r] 30v De forma honestae vitae epistola sancti basilij episcopi de forma honeste vite

Paper

i10 ii10 iii10 iv2 (large tear in fol. 32 followed by two stubs) i+32+i; 254 x 183 mm bound to 257 x 189 mm Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

1-2 (10), 3 (8), 4 (6, -5 -6)

 Frame-ruled in hardpoint; two columns of thirty-nine to forty-four lines; written area: 176 x 127 mm Gothic--textualis One- to four-line initials in red throughout; titles in red; rubrication throughout Inside front coverBookplate, John Frederick Lewis [Flyleaf 1 recto]Catalogue Description

Nineteenth-century German paper boards

Circa 1450

Germany Benedictine-Marienmünster, archdiocese of Paderborn (identifying inscription dated circa 1600); Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 564; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 68, to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology 15th century Treatise German Gothic Germany Theology Church Fathers