Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 208
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4552
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 208
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1450-1475
- Language:
- Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iii+165+i; 200 x 130 mm bound to 208 x 142 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Gratz, Simon, 1840-1925
- Note:
- Pencil notes on front pastedown: "Hours for Paris use, ca. 1470, written for use by a man," and "over 380 in./280 pages of illuminated letters/8 full-page miniatures/10 [full-page] borders"; stamped "Gift of Simon Gratz, ESQ., November 1925" in inner margin of fol. 2r; faint pencil notes on upper pastedown and facing flyleaf read "lhupin" (?)
Binding: Twentieth-century brown Morocco over wooden boards; gilt-tooled decoration; vellum pastedowns and flyleaves; gilt edges
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 101 x 64 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Eight large miniatures, some of which appear to be retouched, with full borders: 13r, Saint John on Patmos; 26r, Annunciation; 82r, King David in Prayer; 100r, Crucifixion; 104r, Pentecost; 107v, Burial; 156r, Virgin and Child with Angels; 162v, The Trinity; red, blue, and gold decorated initials throughout and line filler throughout; folio 104 was inserted to replace a missing or...
Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 451, no. 19.
Provenance: Simon Gratz, presented by him to the Free Library in 1925 - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_208.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_208/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
