Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 90

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DS ID:

DS4444

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 90

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Coutances

Place:

Rouen?, France

Rouen TGN

Date:

1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+136+ii; 169 x 121 mm bound to 178 x 140 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Hodgson and Co.

Hodgson & Co. WIKIDATA

Sabin

Sabin WIKIDATA

Gottschalk, Paul, 1880-

Paul Gottschalk WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper flyleaves
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata is in two sizes, with the antiphons and versicles in a smaller size; calendar in Bâtarde
Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, triple gilt fillets on sides, elaborately gilt back, gilt edges; pastedowns and endpapers are painted purple and decorated with a gold vine design; stamped in gold on spine: "HEURES GOTHIQUE"
Layout: One column of fourteen lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink with bounding lines erased in margins; prickings visible on pages with miniatures (except for fol. 85r); written area: 91 x 65 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Five three-quarter-page miniatures; floral borders in calendar and pages with miniatures and major text divisions; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout; initials touched in yellow
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2036, no. 65.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 98-99, no. 90.
Related resource: Duclow, Donald F. "The Virgin's 'Good Death': The Dormition in Fifteenth-Century Drama and Art." Fifteenth-Century Studies 21 (1994), p. 62, fig. 15.
Provenance: Sale by Hodgson (London, 29 March 1906, no. 181) to Sabin; obtained from Paul Gottschalk, Berlin, sale of 10 Dec. 1912; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "Paul Gottschalk, Berlin, 10/12/1912/ 500" written on back flyleaf

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

France

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

Liturgics

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_090.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_090/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia