(Q21036)
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Oedipi et Sphingis dialogus (Dialogues between Oedipus and the Sphinx); Le Sphinx
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Latin; Ancient Greek (to 1453); Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
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1570-1599
16. century
1570Gregorian
1599
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Extent: v+97+iv; 270 x 190 mm bound to 275 x 205 mm; paper
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Five front flyleaves, all late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century except for the fourth, which is eighteenth-century, with French text on the Sphinx and Oedipus; four end flyleaves, all late nineteenth or early twentieth-century
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Leaves at the end of the volume have been repaired; the end of the book is damaged and the last leaves are missing
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Quire 11 is an artificial quire consisting of the leaves at the end of the volume where the collation cannot be determined
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Binding: Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century green morocco, gilt-tooled, Lakeside Press, Chicago (inside front cover, lower edge); gilt spine title, Oedipus Manuscript
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Layout: One column of varying line counts; frame-ruled in lead; written area: 225 x 115 mm
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Script: Humanistic Cursive
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Decoration: Fifty-eight watercolor illustrations of allegorical scenes, one at the beginning of each dialogue
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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. 2058, no. 180.
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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 Library, 1937), p. 178, no. 164.
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Related resource: Sider, Sandra, and Barbara Obrist, eds. Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992), no. 331.
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Related resource: Rinalli, Tina-Marie, "Oedipi et Sphingi Dialogus, MS FLP Lewis E 164, An Unknown Rendering of the Oedipus Legend and a New Dynamic Between Oedipus and the Sphinx" in Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past: Selected Proceedings from the 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), pp. 90-107.
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Provenance: Final illustration is of a coat of arms, damaged so that all that remains is the hind legs of three animals such as wolves or wolfhounds (page 196); De Foudras family, Bayère, 1747 (child's inscription, "J'aimerois bien ma petite soeur si elle n'etoit pas si sotte, 20 8bre 1747, de foudras, bayere," page 157); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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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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