Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 68: Chronica summorum pontificum et imperatorum romanorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors) 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 68: Chronica summorum pontificum et imperatorum romanorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors) 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 68: Chronica summorum pontificum et imperatorum romanorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors). 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 68 186 This manuscript contains a chronicle of popes and emperors. Latin Chronica summorum pontificum et imperatorum romanorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors) Continuator of Martin of Troppau former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 former owner Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

Paper

 ii+25+ii; 317 x 210 mm bound to 320 x 215 mm Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Structure uncertain; may have been originally collated in gatherings of twelve

 Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of variable lines ranging from twenty to sixty; names are contained in circles in the center of the two columns; written area: 260-70 x 160 mm Gothic--cursiva One four-line initial in red; rubrication throughout; names and circles in red; marginalia throughout; dates given in red upper corner recto

Modern English half brown morocco (Wolf: 'levant')

Circa 1460

Germany Sir Thomas Phillips (early purchase, but not identifiable in his sale catalogues); Davis & Orioli, Cat. 19, June 1917, n. 3; (directly to?) 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 Chronicle 15th century German Germany Gothic History