Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 236

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DS ID:

DS4575

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 236

Title:

Breviary

Artist:

Follower of Jean Pucelle

Jean Pucelle WIKIDATA

Place:

Paris, France

Paris TGN

Date:

1304-1314

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+623+iv; 71 x 46 mm bound to 76 x 56 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Laurence Witten (Firm)

Laurence Claiborne Witten II WIKIDATA

Missing leaves

Note:

No correct system of foliation or pagination present
At least two folios missing, after fols. 23v and 193v
Additional text has been added to a number of folios in a contemporary hand
Corrections to original text in a contemporary hand
Binding: Possibly German, nineteenth-century, red morocco with gilt tooling and gilt clasp
Layout: One column of seventeen lines; ruled in brown ink; pricking visible; written area: 43 x 30 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis quadrata
Decoration: Fifteen historiated initials; over one thousand illuminated initials, some with marginal flourishes; numerous smaller decorated initials and line-fillers in red, blue, and gold
Related resource: J. R. Tanis (ed.), Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 132-133, no. 44.
Provenance: Sold by Laurence Witten (no. 1946 in the 1962 catalog no. 5); purchased by the Free Library of Philadelphia with the Simon Gratz Fund

Keyword:

Missing leaves

France

Breviaries

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_236.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_236/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia