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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4473

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 119

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome; Litany and Prayers

Book of hours

Litany

Prayers

Artist:

Birago, Giovan Pietro, active 1471-1513

Giovanni Pietro Birago WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+63+i; 246 x 168 mm bound to 249 x 182 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Richardson, Thomas F.

Thomas F. Richardson WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

The first inserted leaf is from a Neapolitan Psalter, mid 15th century; the second inserted leaf is from a Netherlandish book of Hours, mid 15th century
On the large miniature of the Virgin in Glory following the Calendar: the artist is Giovanni Pietro Birago, active in Brecia, Milan, and Venice; there may be some repainting in the illumination; the shield contains the Este arms, but this may be a later addition
Binding: 19th-century red velvet, with gilt and gauffered edges
Layout: Part I: ff. 56; 246 x 168 mm (text: 197 x 130 mm); 1 column of 31 lines, hard point ruling; three additional manuscript leaves inserted into the binding before fol. 1, between fols, 1 and 2 and after fol. 60
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature with full border, 11 historiated initials, illuminated initials throughout, red and blue initials throughout
Related resource: Boynton, Susan. "From Book to Song: Texts Accompanying the Man of Sorrows in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," in New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows, ed. Catherine R. Puglisi and William L. Barcham. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2014, pp. 117-143.
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. 103.
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. 133-134, no. 119.
Provenance: Este family?; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (obtained 1919); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; On the recto of the front fly leaf, in pencil "T. F. Richardson" and, in the hand of Lewis, "Officium/Latin ms XV Siecle/(1460) 60 ff./1 full page min/10 smaller ones/Italian"; On fol. 1r, Richardson's...

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

Historiated initials

Italian (culture or style)

illuminations (paintings)

Painting

Italy

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia