Modern parchment flyleaves Prayers on fols. 131r-132r written in Bâtarde, in a different hand End of Three Truths prayer and beginning of Gospel Lesson according to John lacking; end of Passion according to John and beginning of Hours of the Virgin (including miniature) lacking Saint Alexander added to calendar on 14 March (fol. 5r) in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand Binding: English, brown morocco, blind-stamped decoration; stamped in gold on inside front cover; matching slipcase; bound by Zaensdorf, 1900 Layout: One column of eighteen lines, ruled in red ink, some prickings visible: written area: 112 x 75 mm Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata Script: Bâtarde Decoration: Eleven full-page miniatures with borders containing animals and foliage, four half-page miniatures with foliate borders, four unframed animal and floral scenes added to the margins of the calendar, 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. 2037, no. 75. 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 Library, 1937), pp. 106-107, no. 97, illus. Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 20. Related resource: Randall, Lilian M.C., with Christopher Clarkson and Jeanne Krochalis, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 2, France, 1420-1540 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), part 2, p. 439. Related resource: Donald F. Duclow, "The Virgin's 'Good Death': The Dormition in Fifteenth-Century Drama and Art." Fifteenth-Century Studies 21 (1994), p. 62, figs. 12, 13 (article pp. 55-86). Related resource: Donald F. Duclow, "Dying Well: The Ars moriendi and the Dormition of the Virgin," in Death and Dying in the Middle Ages, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics- Society, vol. 45 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 393-394, figs. 24, 25 (article pp. 379-429). Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 119-120, no. 39. Related resource: King'oo, Clare Costley, Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (South Bend: University of Notre Dame, 2012), p. 45 (fol. 68r). Provenance: J. de Charron de Liancourt, Saint Quentin (1701) (inscription on fol. 133r); J.B. Cartier [or Courtier?] (1789) (inscription on fol. 133r); Theodore Newton Vail, late nineteenth.; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, May 4, 1922, lot 685 (catalog clipping on fol. 133r); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in...
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