Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 92

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DS ID:

DS4446

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 92

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Place:

France

France TGN

Flanders?

Flanders TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+116+i; 187 x 135 mm bound to 194 x 142 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

Robert H. Sayre WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Occasional water stains and bleeding through of red ink
First page of the Hours of the Virgin lacking (between fols. 23 and 24)
Calendar includes saints venerated in the diocese of Laon and Soissons: Saint Amand (6 February, fol. 2r); Saint Medard (8 June, fol. 6r); Saint Crispin (25 October, fol 10v); and Saint Nicaise (14 December, fol. 12r)
Faint early ownership inscriptions on fols. 56v and 116v
Calendar and rubrics before each section in French
Inscription in miniature on fol. 52r: angel holds scroll that reads: "Deus omnipotens meus Amen"
Some miniatures likely retouched
Binding: Early twentieth century brown calf, blind stamped; with brown slipcase stamped "BOUND BY HYMAN ZUCKER"
Layout: One column of nineteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 94 x 69 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Eleven half-page miniatures: Visitation (fol. 40r), Nativity, Adoration type (fol. 48r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 52r), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 55r), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 57r), Flight into Egypt (fol. 60r), Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 65r), David before Christ as Judge (fol. 69r), Crucifixion (fol. 84r), Pentecost (fol. 87r), Burial of the Dead (fol...
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. 69.
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. 100-101, no. 92.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Robert Heysham Sayre, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (bookplate on inside cover, dated 1900), sold in Philadelphia, 28 January 1908; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate on recto of first flyleaf); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

France

Netherlands

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_092.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_092/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia