Paper flyleaves Dutch, with Hours of the Days of the Week and some additional prayers in Latin Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gilt-stamped decoration; marbled paper pastedowns; stamped in gold on spine, BOOK OF HOURS, DUTCH MS., and c. 1400 Layout: One column of twenty lines; frame-ruled in purple ink with double upper horizontal bounding line; written area: 98 x 66 mm Script: Hybrida; prayers at end written by multiple hands Decoration: Illuminated initials throughout; blue one-line capitals with red and purple pen work decoration throughout; fifteen pages with full floral inhabited borders. 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. 2036, no. 68. 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. 146, no. 132. Related resource: Webber, Philip E. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries." Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 491-493 (article pp. 459-513). Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) Provenance: Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia: given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Lewis's handwritten pencil notes on recto of first back end leaf
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