Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 103

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4457

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 103

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1400-1599

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+138+iv; 115 x 80 mm bound to 125 x 95 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Leaves missing between fols. 16 and 17, 17 and 18, 25 and 26, 26 and 27, 28 and 29, 57 and 58, 58 and 59, 60 and 61, 67 and 68, 70 and 71, and 100 and 101 (probably those containing miniatures)
Binding: Mid-nineteenth-century English Russia leather, blind tooled, gilt edges; stamped in gold on spine: Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Latin Ms, and Flemish XV Century
Layout: One column of seventeen lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines; written area: 63 x 40 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Floral and inhabited borders; red, blue, and gold decorated 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. 2043, no. 104.
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. 112-113, no. 103.
Provenance: Robert Hoe (sold 1912); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; book plates of Robert Hoe (on inside front cover) and John Frederick Lewis (on recto of front fly leaf); unidentified armorial book plate with six lions on inside front cover; note written in pencil on recto of back fly leaf, "Sale no. 2088...

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

inhabited initials

Missing leaves

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_103.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_103/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia