Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 134

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DS ID:

DS4488

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 134

Title:

Prayer Book, Use of Cologne

Place:

Cologne, Germany

Cologne TGN

Date:

1500-1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+235+i; 97 x 66 mm bound to 104 x 69 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Note for script: At least five different hands can be identified: 1: fols.1r-12v, 2: fols. 13r-51v, 3: fols. 52r-75v, 4: fols. 76r-127v, and 5: fols. 128r-235v
Binding: Original vellum over wooden boards, with (modern ?) clasp; "MISSAL" written in ink on spine
Layout: One column of fifteen to twenty lines; ruled in hardpoint and lead; written area: 75 x 50 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One and two-line initials in red or blue throughout; large initials decorated with pen-flourishing in red, blue, green, yellow (fols. 13r, 41r, 76r, 78v, 94v, 100r, 107r, 118v, 128r, 132r, 143r, 149v, 152v, 158v, 162v, 165v, 170r); rubrication throughout; some blank spaces for initials
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. 2039, no. 88.
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. 148, no. 134.
Related resource: Philip E. Webber. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries." Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 493-494.
Provenance: Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "Gilbert" written in pencil on fol. 2r; catalogue entry pasted onto pastedown of inside of front cover

Keyword:

Prayer books

Sixteenth century

Christianity

Germany

binding (textile material)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_134.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_134/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia