Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 116
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4470
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 116
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Place:
- Italy
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+120+ii; 90 x 60 mm bound to 95 x 70 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- Leaves missing at the beginning of the last quire including text from the Short Hours of the Holy Cross (before fol. 115)
Binding: Italian eighteenth-century red morocco; gilt floral design on the covers, gilt spine and edges; in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf case
Layout: One column of fifteen lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines sometimes visible; written area: 50 x 30 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: Rubrication and one-line initials in red ink throughout; four- and eight-line calligraphic red initials at major text divisions
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. 2041, no. 96.
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. 130, no. 116.
Provenance: Sale, Henkels, Philadelphia, June 10, 1896, no. 117; Samuel W. Pennypacker, his sale, Philadelphia, April 25, 1906, II, no. 412 (sale catalogue description pasted on verso of last flyleaf); (directly to?) 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_116.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_116/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
