Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 131

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DS ID:

DS4485

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 131

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+236+ii; 155 x 120 mm bound to 162 x 131 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Obituary of early owner's mother on fol. 8r (August 3: int jaer van l.) and father on fol. 10r (October 8: int jaer van lvii)
Two scribes: Scribe two responsible for fols. 194r-225v; scribe one for everything else
Binding: Eighteenth-century, Dutch mottled calf, gold-tooled vine-scroll decoration; decorated endpapers; LEGENDE ONSER LIEUE VROUWE stamped in gold on spine
Layout: One column of eighteen lines, ruled in black ink, prickings visible on some leaves; written area: 95 x 61 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Eight full-page inserted color wash miniatures, some with gold paint, representing: Christ in a monk's habit surrounded by twelve lambs (fol. 61v); Christ in a monk's habit carrying the cross (fol. 87v); Pentecost (fol. 97v); Saint Veronica holding her Veil (fol. 125v); Last Judgment (fol. 134v); Christ holding Two Souls (fol. 155v); Noli me Tangere (fol. 226v); and the Instruments...
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. 2035, no. 60.
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. 145, no. 131.
Related resource: Webber, Philip K., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique / Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 47 (1976): pp. 487-491 (article pp. 459-513).
Related resource: Rudy, Kate, Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 134-139, 278.
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Henry Young (bookdealer), Liverpool, sale March 1910, catalogue 409, no. 215; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalogue entry of Young sale attached to endpaper with notes in hand of John Frederick Lewis; obituaries of an early owner's mother (August 3: int jaer van l.) and father (October 8: int...

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Netherlands

Devotional literature

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

Dutch (culture or style)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_131.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_131/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia