Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 98
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4452
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 98
- Title:
- Book of hours, Use of Paris
- Place:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1475-1499
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+133+ii; 174 x 120 mm bound to 182 x 128 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Stewart, Alexander Bannatyne
Maggs Bros.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Faint traces of potential catchword, lower right-hand corner of fol. 78v
Binding: Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco with gilt decorations; gilt edges and marbled paper pastedowns
Layout: One column of seventeen lines, lead point ruling; written area: 107 x 74 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; eight full-page miniatures with foliate borders: fol. 14r –John on Patmos, fol. 23r – Annunciation, fol. 63r – Crucifixion, fol. 66v – Pentecost, fol. 69v – David and Bathsheba, fol. 85r – Death and a king, an emperor and a bishop, fol. 120r – Virgin and Child, fol. 125r – Trinity
Provenance: Alexander Bannatyne Stewart; Maggs Brothers (bookseller); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplates of Alexander Bannatyne Stewart and John Frederick Lewis on inside front cover and recto of first flyleaf, respectively; remains of a bookseller's (?) sticker on inside front cover; hand written... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_098.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_098/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
