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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4443

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 89

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Châlons

Book of hours

Place:

Mons?, Belgium

Mons TGN

Belgium TGN

Châlons, France

Châlons TGN

France TGN

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+166+i; 135 x 92 mm bound to 150 x 108 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Wright, Harrison

Harrison Wright WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

On the lower margin of fol. 1r is the seventeenth-century ownership inscription of the Jesuit College at Louvain, "Collegii Soctis Jesu Lov. M.B."; written in pencil on fol. 166r: "6/11/1908"; printed catalog entry pasted onto fol. 166r; parchment is stiff and discolored
Prayers on fols. 144r-160v are in French
Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasp visible on top cover; rebacked; stamped in gold on spine: "LATIN BREVIARY MS. XV. CENTURY"
Layout: One column of thirteen lines; frame-ruled in faint brown ink (text often crosses over right-hand margin); some prickings are visible on outer edges of pages (the fore-edge); written area: 80 x 55 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Four four-line illuminated initials with floral spray extensions; one five-line red and blue initial; seven four-line red and blue initials; alternating red and blue one- or two-line initials throughout
Provenance: Jesuit College at Louvain (17th century); Collection of Harrison Wright, of Wilkes-Barre (sold Philadelphia, 11 June 1908, no. 240, as "Breviary"; written in pencil on fol. 166r: "6/11/1908," printed catalog entry pasted onto fol. 166r.); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936"

Keyword:

Books of hours

France

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Belgium

Prayers and devotions

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_089.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_089/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia