Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 125
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4479
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 125
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rouen
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1485-1499
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+63+i; 179 x 124 mm bound to 189 x 130 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Brodrick, Charles
Ruskin, John
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
Liturgical use - Note:
- Calendar, some rubrics and prayers in French
Collation note: Structure uncertain; some leaves misbound; many leaves lacking; pages with large miniatures have been removed; no evidence of catchwords or quire signatures
Binding: Nineteenth-century red velvet covers; gilded, gauffered edges
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 25 lines; written area: 104x64 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Twenty-four calendar vignettes with the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months (fols. 1r-6v); foliate and inhabited borders, illuminated one- and two-line initials and line-fillers throughout
Provenance: Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel (d. 1822); John Ruskin (sold 1904); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplate of Archbishop of Cashel pasted onto inside of front cover and the bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on recto of front flyleaf; two dealer catalog descriptions pasted onto the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_125.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_125/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
