Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 117
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4471
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 117
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Place:
- Italy
- Language:
- Latin; Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+260+i; 110x75 mm bound to 100x70mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Lewis, John Frederick
Liturgical use - Note:
- Some headings in Italian
Leaves have been excised throughout; very small stubs remain
Binding: Early nineteenth-century black morocco, in blue morocco case
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of eleven lines; written area: 51x40 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Seven four-line illuminated initials; six historiated illuminated initials with full-page borders; one-line and two-line initials in red and blue throughout; two-line initials decorated with pen flourishes in red or blue; rubrication throughout; one full-page illuminated miniature of the Virgin and Child enthroned
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. 2042, no. 98.
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. 131, no. 117 (+ Supplement).
Provenance: 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_117.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_117/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
