Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 101

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4455

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 101

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Artist:

Vrelant, Guillaume, -1481

Willem Vrelant WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: vii+165+vii; 163 x 110 mm bound to 172 x 127 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Gilbert, W. J.

W. J. Gilbert WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Rubrics on fols. 80v, 150r-151r, and 154r are in Dutch; first three and final three flyleaves are modern paper; remainder are parchment
Binding: Early-nineteenth-century French black calf; elaborately gold-tooled decoration on front and back covers, spine, and inside covers; red satin doublures; gilt and gauffered edges; metal clasp; stamped in gold on spine: "HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS" and "1430"
Layout: One column of eighteen lines; ruled in purple ink; written area: 107 x 72 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Three full-page miniatures; twenty historiated initials; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout
Provenance: Gilbert sale, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909; Given by John Frederick Lewis's widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

Historiated initials

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_101.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_101/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia