Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 132

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DS ID:

DS4486

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 132

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht

Place:

Southern Netherlands

Southern Netherlands TGN

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: vi+154+ vi; 159 x 109 mm bound to 165 x 114 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

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

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

Netherlands

Devotional literature

Prayers and devotions

Dutch (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_132.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_132/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia