Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 107

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DS ID:

DS4461

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 107

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1500-1525

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: v+141+vi; 162 x 100 mm bound to 165 x 108 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Moyreau, J. D.

J.D. Moyreau WIKIDATA

Gilbert, W. J.

W. J. Gilbert WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Modern paper flyleaves
Marbled endpapers
Short instructions to illuminator visible next to some miniatures
First page for Vespers with miniature lacking between fols. 80 and 81
Binding: Early-twentieth-century blue morocco, gilt stamped decoration, marbled paper pastedowns, bound by H. Zucker of Philadelphia; stamped on spine in gold: "HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS, LATIN MS, XV. CENTURY"
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in lead; written area: 104 x 61 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Seventeen large miniatures, with frames and illusionistic text scrolls; four small miniatures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout
Related resource: A superb collection of illuminated vellum manuscripts and works on the art of illuminating, Stan V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909, p. 2, lot 245.
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. 2039, no. 84.
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. 117, no. 107.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Dr. J. D. Moyreau (eighteenth century?); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale, Stan V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909, lot 245 (purchased by John Frederick Lewis for $140, as per inscription on fol. 3r); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

illuminations (paintings)

Prayers and devotions

Dutch (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_107.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_107/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia