Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 110
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4464
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 110
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome
- Place:
- Northern France
- Date:
- 1400-1415
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+188+i; 133 x 90 mm bound to 139 x 90 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Richardson, Thomas F.
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- On recto of front flyleaf: signed "John F. Lewis 1919" in pen, stamp of Thomas F. Richardson of Boston and pencil notes in Lewis's hand: "XIV century/Paris use/190 ff/12 miniatures/1360-1380/covers 100 years later." Written in pencil on fol. 120r: "T. F. Richardson manuscript written between 1360 and 1380 A.D. The covers are 100 years later. Lfs 190 and 12 miniatures. Style Parisian."
Binding: Flemish, early sixteenth-century stamped calf; panel with Saint Roch (1295-1327) dressed as a pilgrim accompanied by an angel and a dog repeated twice on the front cover and twice on the back, other stamps of a dog, a wyvern, a dragon, and a deer; edges gilded and gauffered; leather has been repaired and the spine rebacked
Layout: Frame-ruled in red ink, every line ruled in one column of twelve lines; written area: 75 x 47 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Ten full-page miniatures, two small miniatures; floral and inhabited borders throughout; one-, two-, and three-line initials decorated in red, blue, and gold and decorated line fillers throughout
Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_110.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_110/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
