Lewis E 83 Historia belli civilis inter Caesarem et Pompeium (original) (raw)

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Collection ID: 0023 |Metadata type: TEI |TEI XML |Data

Title

Historia belli civilis inter Caesarem et Pompeium

Other related names

• Saltariellus, Lodovicus, former owner
• Sneyd, Walter, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 83
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 176

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Origin

Circa 1450

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains an account of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey compiled from several classical and medieval authors.

Extent

Ii+30+ii; 165 x 110 mm bound to 170 x 120 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (fols. 1-10, 12-20, 22-30); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto (fols. 11, 21)

Catchwords

Horizontal lower margin center verso; fols. 10, 20

Binding

Vellum, in cloth case

Layout

• Frame-ruled in lead, twenty-eight lines; written area: 95 x 70 mm

Decoration

Blank spaces for two-line initials throughout, titles in red throughout; ownership inscriptions fol. 30v

Script

• Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Owned by Lodovicus Saltariellus circa 1600; sold by Abate Matteo Canonici to Reverend Walter Sneyd in 1835 (Cat., 1837, p. 14, no. 95); his sale, London, 1903, no. 393, to Dobell; Sale, Anderson Galleries, no. 186; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keywords

• History
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Gothic
• Literature -- Prose

Licenses

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Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry
• fol. 30v — Ownership inscription
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry

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