Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 88
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4442
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 88
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht
- Place:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+122+iii; 148 x 103 mm bound to 150 x 110 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Dawson, William Hargrave (1878-)
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
Missing leaves - Note:
- Binding: Eighteenth-century vellum cover; "Heures du XIVe Siecle" written in ink on spine
Layout: Two columns of twenty-two lines; frame-ruled in red ink with double upper and lower bounding lines; written area: 97 x 74 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata; responses, versicles, and antiphons written in smaller script
Decoration: Twelve historiated initials and a one-column miniature of the Annunciation (fol. 64v); floral borders at major text divisions; one-line and two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing and gold initials with blue penwork flourishing alternating throughout, with simple repeating extensions along the full length of the left edge of the text column
Provenance: William Hargrave Dawson (born 1878), of Titlington Hall, Northumberland; 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_088.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_088/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
