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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4470

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 116

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Book of hours

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

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

Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

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:

Devotional literature

Christianity

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Books of hours

Gothic (Medieval)

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_116.html

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia