Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 121

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4475

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 121

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Florence, Italy

Florence TGN

Date:

1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+199+iii; 129x87 mm bound to 135x95 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Morgan, John

John Morgan WIKIDATA

Maggs Bros.

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Liturgical use

Note:

Gothic--textualis (fols. 198v-199v)
Binding: Nineteenth-century, red morocco, gilt inner edges with clasp, LIBER PRECIS stamped in gold on spine; in red case with morocco-backed spine, gold-stamped HORAE B. M. VIRGINIS M.S. XV. SAEC.
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of thirteen lines (calendar, fols. 1-12, frame-ruled in one column of seventeen lines); written area: 68x50 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Two historiated initials, three decorated initials, five foliate borders; one- and two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout
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. 97.
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. 135, no. 121.
Provenance: Abbey of Passignano, Italy (late fifteenth century); bookplate of John Morgan, Rubislaw House, Aberdeen; sold London, Sotheby's (26 February 1900) to Tregaskis (cat. 463, 2 Apr. 1900, n. 388; cat. 468, 9 July 1900, n. 500); Maggs (after 1900); bookplate of John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Liturgical use

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic

Books of hours

Devotional literature

Historiated initials

Gothic (Medieval)

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_121.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_121/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia