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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4416

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 52

Title:

Breviary

Breviary

Artist:

Gherardo, del Fora, approximately 1444-1497

Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora WIKIDATA

Mariano, del Buono di Jacopo, 1433-1504

Mariano del Buono WIKIDATA

Place:

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Milan TGN

Lombardy TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1585-1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

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

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Clark, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1833-1906

Clarence Howard Clark, Sr. WIKIDATA

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:

binding (textile material)

Sixteenth century

Christianity

Historiated initials

Breviaries

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_052.html

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia