Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 128
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4482
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 128
- Title:
- Book of Hours, use of Tours
- Artist:
- Jean Bourdichon, follower of
- Place:
- Tours?, France
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iii+96+iii; 190 x 140 mm bound to 199 x 146 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Fountaine, Andrew, Sir, 1676-1753
Minns, Susan B.
Lewis, John Frederick
Lewis, Anne Baker
- Note:
- First upper flyleaf and final lower flyleaf are heavy paper stamped with gold arabesque motifs, integral to the pastedowns
Binding: Seventeenth-century French red morocco with dentele borders ruled in gold, gilt edges, embossed flyleaves and pastedowns; "HEVRES GOTIQVE." stamped in gold on spine; modern slipcase with "LATIN MS., 12 MINIATURES, FRANCE, XV. CENTURY" stamped in gold on spine
Layout: One column of seventeen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 125 x 80 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Twelve half-page miniatures with foliate borders: twelve half-page miniatures; twelve large illuminated initials; red and blue illuminated initials and line fillers throughout
Related resource: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Selection of valuable books & manuscripts from the library of Sir Andrew Fountaine ... comprising very rare English books and tracts of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, 11 June 1902, lot 425
Related resource: American Art Association, Collection of Miss Susan Minns of Boston, Mass.; Books, Bookplates, Coins, Curios, Prints, Illuminated Manuscripts and Horae Illustrative of "The Dance of Death," to be sold May 2nd and 3rd, 1922 (Greenwich, Conn.: Condé Nast, 1922), lot 415.
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. 2037, no. 78.
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. 142-143, no. 128.
Provenance: From the library of Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753; sold at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 June 1902, lot 425); Quaritch; Susan B. Minns (sold at American Art Association, 2-3 May 1922, lot 415); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "N. 14" written in ink on the verso of the second upper flyleaf... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_128.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_128/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
