De quattuor virtutibus caritatis (On the four virtues of charity) (DS4386) (Q20658)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 20, Lewis E 20)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | De quattuor virtutibus caritatis (On the four virtues of charity) (DS4386) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 20, Lewis E 20) |
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De quattuor virtutibus caritatis (On the four virtues of charity)
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Quodvultdeus, Bishop of Carthage, -454?
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Cockerell, Sidney C.
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1000-1099
11. century
1000Gregorian
1099Gregorian
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1100-1199
12. century
1100Gregorian
1199Gregorian
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Extent: iv+46+iv; 305 x 213 mm bound to 317 x 227 mm; parchment
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Folios 1 and folios 48 are medieval parchment and are numbered, but both are technically flyleaves; additional flyleaves are modern paper
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Binding: Red morocco, spine and covers decorated with vertical rows of brown stamped rolls decorated with portrait busts and rosettes (spine only); gold-stamped inner edges.. DE QUATTUOR VIRTUTIBUS ST. AUGUSTINE / circa 900 stamped in gold on spine and upper cover.
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Layout: One column of twenty-eight lines, hard-point ruling, prickings visible; marginal notes and corrections in contemporary hand; written area: text: 215 x 142 mm; fol. 48r (back Flyleaf 1): columns of thirty-three lines, hard-point ruling; spaces for two to three line initials left blank, one-line initials outlined in red written area: text: 227 x 157 mm
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Script: Caroline minuscule
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Decoration: Seven large decorated initials (4-6 lines, orange to orange-brown ink)
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Related resource: 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. 2044, no. 112.
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Related resource: 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), p. 26, no. 20.
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Provenance: LeMare (sixteenth century); bookplate of Henry White; sold London, Sotheby's, 1902, no. 91; Sidney C. Cockerell; book plate of George Dunn of Woolley Hall (1864-1912); London, Sotheby's, sale February 13, 1913, no. 387 to Maggs (bookseller); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; fol. 1r (flyleaf...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Dot Porter
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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