Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 130

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DS ID:

DS4484

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 130

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht; Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist:

Master of the Suffrages (North Netherlandish illuminator, active circa 1520)

Master of the Suffrages WIKIDATA

Place:

Leiden, Netherlands

Leyden TGN

Date:

1475-1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

1515-1525

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+95+iii; 143 x 104 mm bound to 149 x 105 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Henry Young & Sons

Henry Young and Sons WIKIDATA

Note:

Corrections/additions added in margins on fols. 59v, 69v, 80v, 83r, 85v, 87v, 88r, 90r
Graded marginal annotations in red in calendar marking celebrations for Saint Anthony
Manuscript: circa 1475-1500; Inserted miniatures: circa 1520
First and last flyleaves are paper, remainder are parchment; marbled endpapers
Average size of leaves with miniatures: 133 x 100 mm
Binding: Scottish, vellum binding by Kerr & Richardson of 89 Queen Street, Glasgow (stamp on lower pastedown), marbled endpapers, late nineteenth century; rebacked by Jacques Desmonts of James Macdonald Co., East Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000
Layout: One column of nineteen lines, ruled in brown ink, prickings visible; written area: 88 x 59 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Seven full-page miniatures tipped in throughout Hours of Eternal Wisdom, with yellow panel borders decorated with trompe l'oeil depictions of foliage, flowers, and insects, three illuminated initials, eleven flourished initials, red and blue letters 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. 2034, no. 56.
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), pp. 144-145, no. 130.
Related resource: Philip E. Webber, "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archief-en bibliotheekwezen in België/ Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, vol. 47 (1976): pp. 486-487 (article pp. 459-513).
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 91-92, no. 25.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Purchased at Ghent in 1866 by Robert Highfield of Sheffield, England (note on 3rd front flyleaf); Henry Young and Sons (booksellers), Liverpool, 1910, cat. no. 194; 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

Netherlands

Devotional literature

Gothic (Medieval)

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Dutch (culture or style)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_130.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_130/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia