Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 94
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4448
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 94
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1440-1460
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 207+i; 186 x 130 mm bound to 201 x 145 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Lagnier, Antoine
W.C. Crane
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Pages missing between folios 52 and 53 (miniature for Hours of the Cross) and folios 79 and 80 (miniature for Prime); None for Hours of the Virgin lacking altogether; Vespers bound later in manuscript (fols. 149r-158v), following Litany (though rubric on fol. 148v indicates following section should be Hours of the Cross); Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers inserted (fols. 125r-148v...
Calendar, some rubrics, and prayers on fols. 201r-207v in French
Binding is partially detached
Miniatures in manuscript have been retouched in modern times, especially faces and figures; some, including the miniature of the Golden Cross at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms (fol. 125r), have been entirely repainted (trees for landscape behind Penitent King David visible through verso side); other portions of fol. 125r, including text and decoration, appear to have been extensively...
Inscriptions in miniatures: fol. 14r: Saint John the Evangelist holds a scroll that reads: "Santo iohannes evangeliste..." (?); fol. 29r: the Angel Gabriel holds a scroll that reads: "Ave Maria..."; fol 87r: Angel hols a scroll that reads: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum"
Binding: Nineteenth-century red velvet with diamond designs on front and back, rebacked; red slipcase with tooled lettering, "HORAE B.M.V. - LATIN MS. - XIV. CENTURY"
Layout: One column of twelve lines, ruling in red ink; written area: 90 x 63 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Ten large miniatures, illuminated initials, floral borders 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. 2034, no. 57.
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. 103, no. 94.
Provenance: Antoine Lagnier (1677); W.C. Crane, sale by Anderson (New York, 1912); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; on fol. 80r it is written: "Ce liure apartin a Antoine, Antoine Lagnier Le i may 1677"; on fol. 158v, there is an inscription in the lower margin: "1803"; fragment of a letter, written in French... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_094.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_094/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
