Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 119
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4473
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 119
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Rome; Litany and Prayers
- Artist:
- Birago, Giovan Pietro, active 1471-1513
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1400-1499
- Language:
- Latin; Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+63+i; 246 x 168 mm bound to 249 x 182 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Richardson, Thomas F.
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
Lewis, Anne Baker
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_119.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_119/manifest.json
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