De amore et dilectione Dei (On the love and favor of God); De doctrina dicendi et tacendi (On the doctrine of speaking and keeping silent); De ritu et moribus Indorum (On the rites and ways of the... (DS4368) (Q20604)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 1, Lewis E 1)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | De amore et dilectione Dei (On the love and favor of God); De doctrina dicendi et tacendi (On the doctrine of speaking and keeping silent); De ritu et moribus Indorum (On the rites and ways of the... (DS4368) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 1, Lewis E 1) |
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De amore et dilectione Dei (On the love and favor of God); De doctrina dicendi et tacendi (On the doctrine of speaking and keeping silent); De ritu et moribus Indorum (On the rites and ways of the Indians); Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni (History of the battles of Alexander the Great); Pseudo-Sibylline Prophecy; Sermones quattuor (Four sermons)
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Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century
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Leo, Archipresbyter, active 10th century
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Bragge, William, 1823-1884
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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1275-1299
13. century
1275Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: ii+100+ii; 265 x 180 mm bound to 270 x 185 mm; parchment
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Spine and back cover loose
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Increasing wormhole damage toward end of manuscript
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Paper flyleaves
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Fifteenth-century emendations and rubrics
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Binding: Nineteenth-century brown morocco, black tooled, by Townsend of Suffolk
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Layout: Two columns of fifty-one lines; ruled in lead point; written area: 76 x 108 mm
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: One large historiated initial with Saint James the Apostle and a soldier (fol.1r), decorated initials throughout, marginal decoration and figures (especially birds) throughout; between fols. 76r-82r are eighteen blank spaces of eight to twenty-four lines, each preceding a new chapter, possibly reserved for column miniatures
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Related resource: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, Catalogue of a Magnificent Collection of Manuscripts formed by a gentleman of consummate taste and judgment…which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, at their house, No.13 Wellington Street, on Wednesday, the 7th June, 1876, and Three following Days, lot 2.
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Related resource: Ricci, Seymour de, 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. 2051, no. 144.
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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. 1-3, no. 1.
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Related resource: Rosenbach Museum and Library, Sixty Bokes Olde and Newe: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from Libraries in and Near Philadelphia Illustrating Chaucer's Sources, His Works and their Influence, exhibition catalogue. (Knoxville, TN: New Chaucer Society, 1986), pp. 75-77, no. 42.
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Provenance: William Bragge, Birmingham, England, his sale 7 June 1876, lot 2; 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: 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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