Organon and related texts (DS4381) (Q20643)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 15, Lewis E 15)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Organon and related texts (DS4381) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 15, Lewis E 15) |
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Perry, Preston A.
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1285-1299
13. century
1285Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: ii+178+i; 280 x 198 mm bound to 290 x 208 mm; parchment
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Tears in fols. 23 and 160; parchment has been used to reinforce edges and repair tears on fols. 50r, 54r, 88r, 133r, and 134r; occasional natural holes in parchment and some discoloration; binding is fragile
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Binding: Late nineteenth-century half red straight grain morocco; stamped in gold on spine: "Isagogi of Porphory. Latin MS. XIV [Cent.].","No. 203 in a London sale, June 1818 [per De Ricci]; Preston A. Perry sale, New York, April 21, 1908, no. 263; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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Layout: Ruled in lead point and ink in one column of 26 lines; written area: 147 x 112 mm; the work of several scribes; fol. 103 is blank; fol. 178 is blank and ruled; the first flyleaf, possibly bound with the original manuscript, contains two columns of twenty-five lines of text, hard point ruling, cut off at the bottom; on the verso are six lines of so-called "Nonantulan Notation," used...
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Script: Rotunda
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Decoration: Twenty decorated initials with foliate extensions of varying lengths begin new books and chapters; fol. 35v features a figured initial by a different artist, with a human figure surrounded by grotesques; charts appear throughout decorated in red and black; annotations and manicules appear throughout; running heads in red identify the various books; paraph markers alternate in blue...
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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. 2056, no. 166.
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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. 20, no. 15.
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Provenance: No. 203 in a London sale, June 1818 [per De Ricci]; Preston A. Perry sale, New York, April 21, 1908, no. 263; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; In the front flyleaf is the bookmark of J. F. Lewis, with notes written above: "Italian, very early 14th century Aristotle: Organon Preceding leaf probably...
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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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