Processional; Astronomical Text binding fragment (DS4376) (Q20628)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 9, Lewis E 9)
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English | Processional; Astronomical Text binding fragment (DS4376) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 9, Lewis E 9) |
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Processional; Astronomical Text binding fragment
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Ess, Leander van 1772-1847
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1450-1499
15. century
1450Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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1200-1299
13. century
1200Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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900-999
10. century
900Gregorian
999Gregorian
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Extent: 51+i; 125 x 86 mm bound to 130 x 90 mm; parchment
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Collation note: 2 stubs after fol. 12, 1 stub before fol. 43
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Text and music from fol. 49v to the end were added at a later date
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Thirteenth-century binding fragment pasted to inner front board; Tenth-century binding fragment of an astrological treatise pasted to inner back board
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Binding: Contemporary red pigskin over wooden boards, brass studs and clasp, with fragments of a thirteenth-century manuscript pasted to the inside of the front board, and fragment of a tenth-century astronomical treatise pasted to inside of the back board
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Layout: Frame-ruled in ink, one column of ruled staves in red, yellow, and brown; four staves per folio; written area: 85 x 60 mm; an extra slip of musical notation, accompanying the phrase "Sancte fortis," has been tipped in before fol. 51
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Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
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Decoration: Flourished initials in red and blue or red and black throughout; rubrication of capitals and decoration in red and green throughout; some decorated hyper-extended descenders (e.g., fol. 12v); inhabited initials (fols. 15r, 20v, 21r)
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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. 2032, no. 42.
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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. 12, no. 9.
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Provenance: Collection of Professor Leander van Ess, Darmstadt, no. 318, sold 1824; Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 702=21985, sold via Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, lot 25, to Ettinghausen; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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Contributor: Caitlin Goodman
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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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