Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 96

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DS ID:

DS4450

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 96

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+160+i; 164 x 107 mm bound to 176 x 125 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Calendar and fols. 146v-154r in French
Binding: Twentieth-century brown calf with tooled panels; edges gilded
Layout: One column of eighteen lines; frame ruled in faint red ink; written area: 92 x 55 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semiquadrata
Decoration: Sixteen large miniatures with foliate borders (underdrawing for Tree of Jesse miniature visible on fol. 23r); seventeen small seven-line miniatures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; foliate panel borders on versos; miniatures (except for Tree of Jesse) surrounded by three- or four-sided panel borders; headings, golden letters and important feasts in calendar in...
Provenance: Sale by Sotheby's to Maggs (London, 6 May 1909, no. 24); Sessler (1911), sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

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_096.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_096/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia