Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 91
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4445
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 91
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht
- Place:
- Netherlands
- Date:
- 1485-1499
- Language:
- Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: viii+164+viii; 142 x 100 mm bound to 150 x 115 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Eerens, Lambertus
Eerens, Conradus
Crane, Warren C.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
Books of hours - Note:
- First seven front flyleaves are modern paper, the eighth is parchment; first back flyleaf is parchment, last seven are modern paper
Binding: Dark red morocco, gold-tooled in panel design, gold-tooled inner edges, marbled endleaves; HORAE / DUTCH MS. / XV. CENTURY stamped on gold-tooled spine with false raised bands; bound by H. Zucker of Philadelphia after 1912; in original wooden boards at Anderson sale in 1912
Layout: One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in black ink; written area: 96 x 63 mm
Script: Hybrida (Netherlandish)
Script: One scribe responsible for main text, another responsible for fols. 13r-13v, last collect on fol. 115r, fols. 132v-133v, and fol. 153a
Decoration: Two miniatures (Mater dolorosa, fol. 14v; David in penance, fol. 60v) added by post-medieval hand; large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, and purple ink at major text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout
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. 2035, no. 61.
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), p. 99, no. 91.
Related resource: Webber, Philip E., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 47 (1976): pp. 482-484 (article pp. 459-513).
Provenance: Lambertus and Conradus Eerens (sixteenth century); W.C. Crane; his sale New York, Anderson Auction Co., December 9, 1912, no. 386; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Names of Lambertus Eerens and Conradus Eerens appears in sixteenth-century cursive hand on recto of original front flyleaf; name of... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_091.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_091/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
