Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 93

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DS ID:

DS4447

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 93

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Place:

Brittany?, France

Brittany TGN

Date:

1400-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: v+199+v; 185 x 130 mm bound to 197 x 143 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Some gold has flaked and silver paint has oxidized on fols. 19r, 57r, 98r, 105r; some of the blue rubrics throughout are now faint; paint has been worn/flaked on fol. 69r, rendering the faces in the miniature blank
Some of the miniature appear to have been retouched
Inscriptions in miniatures: fol. 19r: illegible inscriptions on intertwined gold and silver vine scrolls in right margin; fol. 45r: illegible inscriptions on the Angel Gabriel's scroll, and on open book in front of the Virgin Mary; in the lower margin is the inscription: "Qui bien en ionesse naprent en sa veillesse sen repant"; fol. 57r: illegible inscriptions written on gold and silver...
Incipit text at the beginning of each major textual division is gilded
Calendar and prayers on fols. 19r-24v and 25r-28v in French
Binding: French red morocco, triple gilt fillets around sides and gilt frames in centers with floral ornaments at the corners, elaborately floral gilt back, gilt edges, seventeenth century
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 99 x 61 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Fourteen three-quarter-page miniatures surrounded by full foliate border; half-page floral borders in calendar and on pages where textual divisions occur; illuminated initials and line-fillers 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. 63.
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. 102-103, plate XVI, no. 93.
Provenance: Unidentified coat of arms of the original owner in the lower margin of fol. 80v, three doves proper on a field of gules; Bull and Auvache, London, ₤30 (as per inscription in J.F. Lewis' hand on one of the back flyleaves); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

France

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_093.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_093/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia