Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 114

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DS ID:

DS4468

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 114

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Artist:

Follower of the master of the vitae imperatorum

Master of the Vitae Imperatorum WIKIDATA

Place:

Lombardi, Italy

Lombardi TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 104+ii; 119 x 87 mm bound to 126 x 90 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Bourguet, Louis

Louis Bourguet WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Early nineteenth-century mottled vellum; stamped in gold on spine, "offices de vierge" and "avec miniature"; edges speckled with red
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink, every line ruled, fifteen lines in one column; written area: 78 x 54 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One- and two-line initials in red and blue with foliate and geometric designs throughout, twelve historiated initials, miniature of the Annunciation and a foliated border (fol. 1r)
Provenance: Bought at Verona, May 1698, by Louis Bourguet; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

Historiated initials

Italy

Fifteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_114.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_114/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia