Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 49

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4413

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 49

Title:

Breviary

Place:

Cologne?

Cologne TGN

Flanders?

Flanders TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 76, with two loose leaves (one original and one a later note); lacking end; 120 x 92 mm bound to 128 x 95 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

van Ess, Leander, 1772-1847

Johann Heinrich van Ess WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper reinforcements pasted into gutters at fols. 30v-31r, 40v-41r, 41v-42r, 42v-43r, 43v-44r, 73v-74r, 74v-75r, 75v-76r; later prayers (eighteenth century?) pasted over text at fol. 5r; Inscriptions of similar date on upper and lower pastedowns; loose page fragment consisting of a lower third of a page inserted into book between fols. 29v and 30r
Binding: Contemporary vellum over wooden boards, remains of clasp
Layout: One column of nineteen lines; written area: 95 x 65 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One large initial in gold and colors with foliate decoration within a trilateral border of leafy sprays; several smaller initials in gold and colors; capitals in red and blue; rubrication in red
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. 2031, no. 39.
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. 55, no. 49.
Provenance: Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 108; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 493; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 676; to Albert for John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

German (culture, style, period)

Germany

illuminations (paintings)

Gothic (Medieval)

Breviaries

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_049.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_049/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia