Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 174

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4520

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 174

Title:

Prayer book

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+110+i; 145 x 101 mm bound to 151 x 103 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Vallentin, James

James Vallentin WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: 18th century vellum binding, edges dyed blue, traces of straps on front and back covers
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead; one column of twenty-two lines; written area: 103 x 75 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis, with some cursive features
Decoration: One full-page miniature (Agony in the Garden, fol. 2v); two marginal images: The five wounds (fol. 1r), Heart pierced by arrows (fol. 9v); large decorated initials in red and blue with pen flourishing and partial borders; one- and two-line initials in red or blue throughout; three-line decorated initials in red and blue with pen flourishing throughout; rubrication throughout...
Provenance: James Vallentin (signature front flyleaf recto); Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Prayer books

Liturgics

Fifteenth century

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_174.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_174/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia