Carta pisana; Sententiae (Sentences) (DS4490) (Q20970)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 136, Lewis E 136)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Carta pisana; Sententiae (Sentences) (DS4490) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 136, Lewis E 136) |
Statements
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
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Voynich, Arno M.
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Lewis, John Frederick
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1090-1199
11. century
12. century
1090Gregorian
1199Gregorian
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Extent: 87+i; 281 x 192 mm bound to 292 x 200 mm; parchment
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Parts of the text not originally included (Bk. I, Ch. 5; Bk. II, Ch. 28) added by a later scribe after the explicit on fol. 86v
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Six lines erased on fol. 87r
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Glosses, corrections, and annotations throughout
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Damage (red ink?) to fols. 17v-18r
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Capitula given for the three books of Isidore's "Sententiae"
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Binding: White, eighteenth-century (?) parchment over pasteboards
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Layout: Part I (fols. 1r-86v): one column of thirty-one lines, frame-ruled in dry point, pricking visible throughout, written area 215 x 145 mm; Part II (fol. 87r): nineteen lines visible, dry point ruling, written area: 273 x 195 mm; Part III (fol. 87v): two columns of forty-three lines, written area: 220 x 160 mm; evidence of trimming throughout
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Script: Caroline Minuscule
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Decoration: One large decorated initial, two small decorated initials, and numerous colored initials throughout
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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. 2047, no. 125.
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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. 150, no. 136.
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Related resource: Tito Antoni, I costi industriali di una azienda conciaria della fine Trecento (1384-1388) (Pisa: Pacini, 1973), p. 8.
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Related resource: Ignazio Baldelli, La carta pisana di Filadelphia: conto navale in volgare pisano dei primi decenni del sec. XII (Florence: G.C. Sansoni, 1973).
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Related resource: Tito Antoni, "The Pisan Document of Philadelphia", Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 4, no. 1 (1977), pp. 17-24.
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Related resource: Antonio Mastruzzo, "Il conto navale nel panorama grafico della Pisa altomedievale," in Pisa e il Mediterraneo: Uomini merci, idee dagli Etruschi ai Medici, Marco Tangheroni, ed. (Milan: Skira, 2003), pp. 190-195 and 444.
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Provenance: Arno M. Voynich, London (1915); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; inscribed on inside of front cover: "10-11th Cent," "₤250", and "Spanish Ms 10-11th century (?) 'Isidorus' Bought from Arno M. Voynich of London 1915"
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Oliver Mitchell
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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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