Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 52
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4416
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 52
- Title:
- Breviary
- Artist:
- Gherardo, del Fora, approximately 1444-1497
Mariano, del Buono di Jacopo, 1433-1504
- Place:
- Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Date:
- 1585-1599
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+39+i; 252 x 187 mm bound to 260 x 195 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
Clark, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1833-1906
- Note:
- Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian red morocco, elaborate gilt foliate decorations on the sides, gilt back, gilt edges, in cloth case
Layout: Some evidence of ruling in hard point; text in one column of eighteen to twenty lines surrounded by borders; written area: 221x168 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Father Eliseus Bonettus of Milan (scribe)
Decoration: Three historiated initials in gold and colors; two decorated initials; gold initials against background with small penwork landscapes throughout; one to two-line initials in red throughout; rubrication in red and gold; each page within a full foliate border, primarily of a rose design with flowers in gold, silver, and colors; the three historiated initials and two decorative...
Provenance: Father Eliseus Bonettus of Milan to the Reverend Father Theodorus Cambius, Vicar of Mantua; Clarence H. Clark, Esq. (Chestnutwold, Philadelphia), his sale, Philadelphia, 1909, I, no. 184; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_052.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_052/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
