Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 217

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4561

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 217

Title:

Prayer book

Place:

Brabant?, Netherlands

Brabant TGN

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 195; 136 x 95 mm bound to 140 x 102 mm; paper

Note:

Localization by P. E. Webber based on dialect
Suggested date by P.E. Webber based on watermark
Quire 24 (nine leaves, fols. 171-179) is a complex quire in which a bifolium enclosed two quires of four, and the second half of the bifolium has been canceled
Binding: Original vellum wrapper containing four cut leaves of musical notation on paper in lieu of boards; two thongs attached to front cover, remnants of thongs on back cover; in ink on spine: MSS 1501-2
Layout: One column of eighteen to twenty lines; ruled with a frame (first quire) and lead; written area: 103 x 70 mm
Script: Hybrida (fols. 2r-167v)
Script: Cursive (fols. 171r-194r)
Script: Five hands discernible: A. 2r-4r, 17v-132v, 155r-167v; B. 4v-5r, 6r-7v, 147r-153v; C. 5v, 9v-15v, 133r-146v; D. 171r-187v; E. 188r-194r
Decoration: Three- and four-line initials in blue with faded red penwork touched with red and green wash at the beginning of prayers; one- and two-line initials in red throughout; rubrication in red
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. 2013, no. 4.
Related resource: Webber, Philip E., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 506-510 (article pp. 459-513).
Provenance: Early twentieth-century catalog entry pasted to inside front cover; at FLP by the 1930s; blue pencil "1502-3" on fol. 1r

Keyword:

binding (textile material)

Prayer books

Musical notation

Sixteenth century

Netherlands

Watermarks

Paper

Prayers and devotions

Dutch (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_217.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_217/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia