Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 175

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4521

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 175

Title:

Prayer against the plague; Prayer book

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Language:

Latin; Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+121+iii; 76 x 52 mm bound to 78 x 58 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Richardson, Thomas F.

Thomas F. Richardson WIKIDATA

Note:

Portion of the prayers written backwards
Binding: 17th century blind tooled calf panels inlaid in the sides, brown morocco back, gilt edges, in brown morocco case
Layout: One column of fifteen lines; written area: 47 x 35 mm
Script: Gothic -textualis
Decoration: Thirty-one full page miniatures in gold and colors with borders containing human figures, beasts, mottoes, and flowers; three full-page borders; one historiated initial; nine decorated and illuminated initials with foliate borders; illuminated initials in text; one half-page tau cross; two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout; decorative pen flourishes...
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. 2043, no. 175.
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), pp. 187-89, no. 175 (+ Supplement).
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

Keyword:

Europe--Flanders

Prayer books

Sixteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

Gothic (Medieval)

Liturgics

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Flemish (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_175.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_175/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia