Bible; Notes on a church synod (DS4397) (Q20691)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 32, Lewis E 32)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Bible; Notes on a church synod (DS4397) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 32, Lewis E 32) |
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Pistrucci, Benedetto, 1783-1855
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Extent: iii+ 253+iv; 208 x 150 mm bound to 215 x 165 mm; parchment
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Reader's note of scholarly references dated 1702 (fol. 136r); another reference in the same hand follows the 1584 synod articles (fol. 203r)
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Binding: Late nineteenth-century brown morocco with tooling; stamped in gold on spine: BIBLIA SACRA LATINA; pages are trimmed with loss of marginal notes; marbled endpapers and pastedowns
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Layout: Written in two columns of sixty to sixty-six lines, frame-ruled in ink with double horizontal bounding lines; Interpretation of Hebrew Names written in four columns of at least seventy-four lines (no upper margin, possible loss of text); written area: 160 x 110 mm (Bible), 192 x 140 mm (Interpretation of Hebrew Names)
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Script: Gothic--textualis
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Decoration: Red and blue flourished initials throughout; red and blue chapter numbers and running titles; rubrication in faded red ink
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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. 2027, no. 13.
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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. 40, no. 32.
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Provenance: Possibly owned by Roman-born British engraver Benedetto Pistrucci in the nineteenth century (1783-1855; inscription about his birth, "Benedetto Pistrucci nato in Roma il ventiquattro maggio del mille settecento ottantaquattro" in an extremely minute hand mounted on second flyleaf); sale by Sotheby (London, 23 July 1906, no. 441) to Bull; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by...
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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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