Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 105

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DS ID:

DS4459

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 105

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+171+iii; 102 x 75 mm bound to 108 x 85 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Petrus Jensenius, 17th century

Petrus Jensenius WIKIDATA

Gerardus de Bois, 17th century

Gerardus de Bois WIKIDATA

Styles, Jeremiah, -1832

Jeremiah Styles WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

The third flyleaf at the front of the manuscript is parchment and has the hymn "O jubar nostrae specimen salutis" written on it in a different hand
Collation note: collation is uncertain after Quire 16
Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, gilt-tooled decoration with fleur-de-lis designs; initials "F.S." stamped in gold on spine; gilt edges
Layout: One column of seventeen lines; written area: 65 x 42 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Fourteen full-page miniatures with full floral borders facing text pages with full floral borders: fol. 13v - Crucifixion, fol. 19v - Pentecost, fol. 25v - Mary and Child enthroned with Angels, fol. 36v - Annunciation, fol. 52v - Visitation, fol. 63v - Nativity, fol. 68v - Annunciation to the Shepherds, fol. 73v - Adoration of the Magi, fol. 77v - Presentation in the Temple, fol...
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. 71.
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. 114-115, no. 105.
Provenance: Transferred from the Franciscan brother, Petrus Jensenius to another Franciscan, Gerardus de Bois (December 10, 1610); Regina Joanna (Joan of Navarre, suggested in a catalog description at the back of the volume, is too early to be an owner of this manuscript); Jeremiah Styles, Goldness Hall (died 1832; signature, J. Styles, Goldness, f. 13r); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia...

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Belgium

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_105.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_105/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia