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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4454

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 100

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Book of hours

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+145+iii; 125 x 80 mm bound to 135 x 95 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Ysermans, Petrus

Petrus Ysermans WIKIDATA

Maelens, Jeronimus

Jeronimus Maelens WIKIDATA

Gilbert, W.J.

W. J. Gilbert WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Two catalog entries pasted on the verso of the front flyleaf; a cutting from a newspaper with the headline "The highest-priced book" pasted on the recto of the first front endleaf
Binding: Nineteenth-century diced and blind-tooled Russia leather; stamped in gold on spine: "MISSAL"; marbled paper pastedowns
Layout: One column of fourteen lines; frame-ruled in purple ink with double upper and lower bounding lines; written area: 66 x 43 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Six full-page miniatures with full borders for major text divisions facing text pages with full borders and illuminated initials; four-line illuminated initials for hour divisions within the Hours of the Virgin; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout; the versos of the miniatures blank and unruled
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. 64.
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. 109, no. 100.
Provenance: Petrus Ysermans and Jeronimus Maelens (17th century); W. J. Gilbert, Saint Louis (his sale, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; pasted on to recto of second end leaf, note written on letterhead of the Diocesan Chancery of Saint Louis, written in the hand of W.J. Gilbert...

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia