Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 122

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4476

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 122

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Ferrara, Italy

Ferrara TGN

Date:

1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+152+iv; 105x70 mm bound to 112x76 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Carbicei, Francisco

Francisco Carbicei WIKIDATA

Richardson, Thomas F.

Thomas F. Richardson WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Liturgical use

Note:

Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of fifteen lines; written area: 58x40 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Three historiated initials within full-page floral borders containing medallions of butterflies, birds, and deer in Ferrarase style: empty cross (fol. 80r), King David (fol. 85r), skull (fol. 105r); fourteen initials with marginal decoration in gold and colors; one-line and two-line initials in red and blue throughout with decorative pen flourishing, flowers, grotesque heads...
Provenance: Francisco Carbicei of Forli, Brescia, 1602; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; obtained in 1919 by 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

Christianity

Historiated initials

Italy

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_122.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_122/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia