Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 104

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DS ID:

DS4458

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 104

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1470-1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+208+ii; 209 x 145 mm bound to 215 x 157 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Royer, T.

T. Royer WIKIDATA

Wright, John

John Wright WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Upper corners of front and back covers are damaged; front cover is beginning to separate from the spine
Rubrics in French
Leaf from an unrelated Book of Hours tipped onto the recto of front endleaf, possibly by Lewis; contains the beginning of the prayer "Obsecro te" with rubric "Or[ati]o beate virginis Marie"
Binding: Eighteenth-century French morocco; gilt back and edges; marble paper pastedowns and flyleaves; stamped on spine in gold: "LIVRE D'EGLISES"
Layout: One column of nineteen lines, ruled in lead; prickings visible on some pages; one leaf with one column of fifteen lines, ruled in red; text continues on reverse; written area: 125 x 85 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Five full-page miniatures with full borders, one half-page miniature; twenty-three historiated initials; red, blue, and gold decorated initials throughout; one inserted leaf with illuminated initial and inhabited border
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. 67.
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. 113-114, no. 104.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: T. Royer (18th century); Rev. John Wright; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Bookplates of the Rev. John Wright (inside front cover) and John Frederick Lewis (recto of front flyleaf); Entries from printed catalogues in inside front cover and recto of back flyleaf; "Manuscrit Heurs de Notre Dame...

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Netherlands

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_104.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_104/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia