Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 106
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4460
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 106
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Artist:
- Vrelant, Guillaume, -1481, workshop
- Place:
- Flanders, Bruges, Belgium
- Date:
- 1460-1469
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iii+262+iii; 97 x 70 mm bound to 104 x 77 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Clark, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1833-1906
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Binding: Early nineteenth century, English straight-grained black morocco, gold and blind-tooled and stamped with Masonic symbols, spine labeled in gold: "OFFIC. B.M.V."
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in faint red ink; written area: 53 x 36 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Seventeen full-page miniatures: Crucifixion (fol. 13v), Pentecost (fol. 22v), Virgin and Child Enthroned (fol. 30v), Annunciation (fol. 45v), Visitation (fol. 69v), Nativity (fol. 83v), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 90v), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 96v), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 102v), Massacre of the Innocents (fol. 108v), Flight into Egypt (fol. 118v), Coronation...
Provenance: Clarence H. Clark (sale, Philadelphia, 1909, I, no. 182); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; On the second front flyleaf, a note is pasted in: "Sale of Clarence H. Clark, no. 182." The description of this item for sale is pasted onto the reverse; Unidentified coat of arms – a blue shield with silver... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_106.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_106/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
