Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 179

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DS ID:

DS4525

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 179

Title:

Prayer Book

Author:

Erasmus, Desiderius

Erasmus WIKIDATA

Prudentius

Prudentius WIKIDATA

Vida, Marco Girolamo

Marco Girolamo Vida WIKIDATA

Place:

Northern Germany?

Northern Germany TGN

Flanders?

Flanders TGN

Date:

1540-1550

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+109+i; 138 x 96 mm bound to 146 x 101 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Joachim, Baron von Windhag

Joachim, Baron von Windhag WIKIDATA

von Kniestedt, Eberhard

Eberhard von Kniestedt WIKIDATA

Huth, Henry

Henry Huth WIKIDATA

Parsons, E.

Edwin Parsons & Sons WIKIDATA

Note:

The final flyleaf is foliated as fol. 110
Texts by Erasmus, Prudentius, and Marco Girolamo Vida identified by Nicholas Herman, March 2017
Binding: Contemporary German stamped calf, within a border of scrolls and medallions; on each side a stamped center panel gilt showing Christ triumphing over Death, with the initials HGV (attributed to Hans von Ghent), in cloth case
Layout: One column of nineteen lines; parchment scraps with gothic script used as reinforcement visible at front (with musical notation, before fol. 1) and back (with text, after fol. 109); written area: 88 x 60 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Forty copperplate engravings depicting the Life of Christ, the first colored, the subsequent engravings occupying every other leaf
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. 2044, no. 110.
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. 193, no. 179.
Provenance: Owned by Joachim, Baron von Windhag, his bookplate of 1661 on verso of first flyleaf; Eberhard von Kniestedt, his bookplate on upper pastedown; Henry Huth (The Huth Library, V, 1880, p. 1718; A. H. Huth, A catalogue of the woodcuts and engravings in the Huth library, 1910, pp. 13-14); A. H. Huth sale of engravings, Sotheby's London, July 4, 1911, no. 47; to E. Parsons; (directly...

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Prayer books

Sixteenth century

Christianity

Germany

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_179.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_179/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia