Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 108
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4462
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 108
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Artist:
- Master of Edward IV, active 1470-1490
- Place:
- Bruges, Belgium
- Date:
- 1485-1499
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iii+152+iii; 175 x 125 mm bound to 180 x 140 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Guyon de Sardiere, Jean-Baptiste Denis, 1674-1759
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de, 1708-1780
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Three front flyleaves, two paper followed by one parchment; end flyleaves, one parchment followed by two paper
Calendar and rubrics in French
The Suffrages include saints Adrien, Aubert, Erasme, and Piat
"Guyon de Sardière" inscribed on ff. 1r and 152v; signature of Robert Hoe and notes by John F. Lewis on the front flyleaves
Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch red morocco; gold-tooled boards and spine; silver pierced cut-work clasp; velvet bag preserved in modern clamshell box
Layout: One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in red ink (extremely faint); written area: 95 x 65 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Four full-page miniatures with elaborate borders, one quarter-page miniature, six decorated initials in full-page borders, seven decorated initials with vertical border bars
Related resource: Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Denis Guyon (Paris: Chez Barrois, libraire, quai des Augustins, 1759), no. 34.
Related resource: Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V (Paris: Chez Guillaume François de Bure le jeune, 1767), vol. 1, no. 266.
Related resource: Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York. Part IV: a to K: illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, historical bindings, early English literature, rare Americana, French illustrated books, eighteenth century English authors, autographs, manuscripts, and the library of bibliography in a separate alphabet: to be sold by auction beginning Monday, November 11, 1912...
Related resource: The Grolier Club, New York, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and Painted Manuscripts Together with a Few Early printed books with Illuminations – Also Some Examples of Persian Manuscripts – with Plates in Facsimile and an Introductory Essay, exh. cat. (New York: The Grolier Club, 1892), p. 9, no. 21.
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. 85.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
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 Library, 1937), p. 118-119, no. 108d, pl. 20.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 19, with illus. on facing page.
Related resource: Brinkmann, Bodo, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: Der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs un die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, Ars Nova: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination (Turnhout: Belgium: Brepols, 1997), pp. 338, 398, text fig. 88.
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 111-112, no. 35.
Provenance: Signature of Jean-Baptiste-Denis Guyon de Sardière, fols. 1r and 152v, eighteenth century; Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Denis Guyon, Paris, 1759, no. 34; Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, 1759; Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V , by Guillaume de Bure, Paris, 1767, vol. 1, no. 266; clipping from an auction... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_108.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_108/manifest.json
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