Historia scholastica (DS4516) (Q21048)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 168, Lewis E 168)
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Historia scholastica (DS4516)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 168, Lewis E 168)

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    Historia scholastica
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    Extent: ii+214+ii; 296 x 212 mm bound to 307 x 223 mm; parchment
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    Written on very thin parchment
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    At fol. 188, the early foliation skips to 189 but there is no missing leaf; thereafter the modern pencil foliation is correct
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    Book IX, omitted by the original scribe, has been added in a different hand after the end of the main text (fols. 214r-v)
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    Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gilt with "HISTORIA SCHOLASTICA / PETRUS COMESTOR / SÆC. XIII." stamped on spine; in modern red cloth slipcase
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    Layout: Two columns of forty-four lines; frame-ruled in ink, pricking holes visible; written area: 196 x 142 mm; evidence of trimming
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    Script: Gothic--textualis
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    Decoration: Large and small ornamental capitals with marginal penwork tracery in red and blue; rubrication and paragraph marks in red
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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. 2049, no. 132.
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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. 182, no. 168.
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    Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 6.
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    Related resource: M. Huglo, "La dispersion des manuscrits de Royaumont," Revue bénédictine, t. 113, f. 2 (2003), p. 377 (article: pp. 365-406).
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    Provenance: May have been in the Abbey of Royaumont in 1791 (see Huglo 2013); lot 429 in American Art Association sale, New York, Jan. 30, 1928 (print catalog clipping pasted inside front cover); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (his shelfmark "168" in green crayon on flyleaf 1v); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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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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