(Q20805)
Statements
Epistola ad Iheronimum (Letter to Jerome); Vitae patrum (Lives of the Fathers)
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
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Abezier, Johann
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Extent: i+160+i; 329 x 220 bound to 345 x 244; parchment
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Written by order of Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia in Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24)
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Binding: Seventeenth-century Belgian or French calf
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Layout: Frame-ruled in lead hard point in one column of 32 lines; prickings extant; written area: 213 x 150 mm
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Script: Gothic textualis
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Decoration: Six-line and two-line pen-flourished initials in red and blue with puzzle and foliate design throughout; manicules and rubrication 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. 2046, no. 118.
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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), pp. 88-89, no. 81.
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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. 23.
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Related resource: Schmidt, Peter Lebrecht. "Eine Cicero-Handschrift des Ermländischen Bischofs Johannes Abeczier." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Bd. 109 (1966): 170-184.
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Provenance: Johann Abezier, Bishop of Warmia, Ermeland, East Prussia (1415-24); in France by ca. 1800; bought by the Earl of Ashburnham in 1872; his sale, London, 1899, no. 160 to Leighton for George Dunn; his sale, London, Feb. 11, 1913, I, no. 678; to Young; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; 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: Erin Connelly
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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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