Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends) (DS4424) (Q20772)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 66, Lewis E 66, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_066.html)
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| English | Epistolae ad familiares (Letters to friends) (DS4424) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 66, Lewis E 66, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_066.html) |
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4 December 2023
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: ii+175+ii; 256 x 176 mm bound to 260 x 186 mm; parchment
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Paper flyleaves
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Binding: Late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century, mottled calf, blind tooled and stamped concentric panel design, panels on spine tooled and stamped in gold, labeled TULLII EPIST: FAMIL: MSS
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Layout: One column of thirty-one lines, ruled in hard-point; written area: 160 x 110 mm
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Script: Humanistic cursive
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Script: Scribe: Gregorius de Martinellis de Buccassolo
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Decoration: One large eight-line white vine-scroll initial with partial border and space for coat of arms decorated with white vine-scroll (fol. 1r); illuminated initials at beginning of each book (fols. 1r, 14r, 22v, 33r, 43r, 56r, 67v, 78r, 82v, 98v, 113v, 123r, 134v, 153v, 158r, 168r); alternating red and blue two-line initials throughout; rubrication, running book numbers in upper margin...
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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. 2057, no. 171.
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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. 73, no. 66.
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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. 26.
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Provenance: Sold by Pickering & Chatto, London, to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1923 (receipt inside back cover); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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14 April 2025
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