Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 99

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4453

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 99

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Artist:

Gold Scrolls Group (active c. 1415-1455)

Masters of the Gold Scrolls WIKIDATA

Place:

Bruges, Belgium

Bruges TGN

Date:

1430-1439

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+154+i; 204 x 141 mm bound to 213 x 150 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906

Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts WIKIDATA

Burdett-Coutts, William, 1851-1921

William Burdett-Coutts WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Angel's scroll in the miniature of the Annunciation, fol. 24v, reads: "Ave gratia plena dominus tecum"
Binding: Late-fifteenth-century, possibly Venetian, brown morocco, blind-tooled, gilt gauffered edges, traces of original hinges; slipcase with "LIVRE D'HEURES, ILLUMINATED M.S., ON VELLUM, ABOUT 1450, (ITALIAN BINDING, 1470)" stamped in gold on spine
Layout: One column of twenty lines, red ink ruling (prickings visible); the last twenty-four leaves are ruled but left blank; written area: 112 x 76 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Fourteen full-page miniatures with foliate (rinceaux type) borders; fourteen six-line illuminated initials; three three-line illuminated initials, and one-to-two-line illuminated initials, line fillers, and foliate borders on nearly every page
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. 2036, no. 66.
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), p. 108, no. 99.
Related resource: James Douglas Farquhar, "Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters Ms. 239," The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 45 (1987), p. 56, note 42.
Related resource: Lilian M.C. Randall et al., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press in association with The Walters Art Gallery, 1997), p. 162.
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. 94-96, no. 27; p. 118, n. 4.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), London; her husband, Right Hon. William Burdett-Coutts, M.P. (1851-1921); his sale, Sotheby's, London, May 15-17, 1922, lot 274; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; two unidentified coats of arms on an altar-cloth...

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_099.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_099/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia