Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 51

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4415

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 51

Title:

Breviary

Place:

Naples, Italy

Naples TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+204+iv; 172 x 121 mm bound to 181 x 124 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Full brown morocco, gilt back, corner, and center ornaments
Layout: Fourteen-to-sixteen lines per page, single column, ruled in ink; written area: 89 x 63 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Roundel miniatures with labors of the month and zodiac figures for the calendar; two small miniatures and one historiated border; seven seven- and eight-line historiated initials; numerous two-to-four-line ornamental initials; marginal decorations
Provenance: Given by John Frederick Lewis' widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Historiated initials

Gothic (Medieval)

Breviaries

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Fifteenth century

Liturgics

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_051.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_051/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia