Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 112
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4466
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 112
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1500-1525
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+105+i; 182 x 113 mm bound to 190 x 125 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Espeisse, de Farges d'
Legoué
Campagne, Laurent
Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876
Richardson, Thomas
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Binding: Original brown calf covers over wooden boards; blind stamped including emblems of the Virgin and Child on a crescent, the Pascal Lamb, and Saint Matthew; bound at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mathias at Trèves (de Ricci); rebacked
Layout: Twenty-one long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink; written area: 112 x 68 mm
Script: Hybrida
Decoration: Twelve full-page miniatures with architectural borders; eighteen smaller miniatures; illuminated initials (one-line and two-line) and line fillers throughout
Provenance: Coat of arms of the family de Farges d'Espeisse of Auvergne, originally from Lyon (argent a chevron azure charged with five estoiles or surmounted by a crescent argent; fol. 21v); second coat of arms of the former on the dexter side dimidiated with Legoué, of Mayenne on the sinister (argent a bend gules charged with three unicorn heads or; also fol. 21v); Laurent Campagne (16th... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_112.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_112/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
