Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 127

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DS ID:

DS4481

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 127

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Soissons?

Place:

France

France TGN

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+97+i; 120 x 81 mm bound to 127 x 87 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Labitte, Alphonse

Alphonse Labitte WIKIDATA

Note:

On fol. 1r vellum has been reused or once faced a page of text that has left a transfer impression; writing too faint to read
Binding: Nineteenth-century, black morocco, blind tooled, gilt edges, ORAISONS stamped in gold on spine
Layout: One column of fourteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 49 x 39 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Script: Two scribes; scribe one responsible for all but fols. 1r-1v, 22r-23v, and 93r-97v
Decoration: Five foliate borders (fols. 11v, 24v, 37r, 42r, 45v), illuminated one-to-four-line initials and line endings throughout; decoration program appears to be incomplete: some large spaces probably left for miniatures; numerous spaces left for illuminated initials
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. 2040, no. 91.
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 Library, 1937), p. 142, no. 127.
Provenance: Alphonse Labitte (modern bookplate on inside front cover); W.C. Crane sale by Anderson (New York, 9 Dec. 1912, no. 392); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

Missing leaves

Christianity

France

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_127.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_127/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia