Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 257

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DS ID:

DS4594

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 257

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht

Place:

Eastern Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+242+iv; 143 x 103 mm bound to 144 x 104 mm; mixed

Former Owner(s):

Lysebet, van Karnehe, Sister

Sister Lysebet van Karnehe WIKIDATA

Hartung, T.L.

T.L. Hartung WIKIDATA

Krauth, Charles P. (Charles Porterfield), 1823-1883

Charles Porterfield Krauth WIKIDATA

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia WIKIDATA

Note:

Small finding tabs of leather on fore edge
Binding: Blind-stamped sheep, circa 1500, with stamps of the Agnus Dei, fleur-de-lis, and Virgin and Child; damage in location of former clasps on front cover; twentieth-century rebacking by Fritz Eberhardt with gilt spine title Deutsches Offizienbuch
Layout: One column of twenty to twenty-two lines; frame-ruled in lead with double horizontal bounding lines, mostly erased; written area: 88 x 62 mm
Script: Hybrida
Decoration: One full-page miniature with a metal-cut border (page 28); one illuminated initial with a border of foliage and drolleries (page 29); eleven large blue and red pen-flourished initials; two-line initials, one-line initials, and paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout
Related resource: Dutschke, Consuelo Wager, and Tanis, James R, Leaves of gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001) no. 29, pp. 98-99
Provenance: Early sixteenth-century ownership inscription of Sister Lysebet van Karnehe (fol. 242v and possibly front flyleaf iii verso); nineteenth-century inscription in pencil of T. L. Hartung (front flyleaf iii verso); German catalog clipping pasted in (end flyleaf ii recto); Lutheran pastor and editor Charles Porterfield Krauth (seminary library bookplate, inside front cover); gift of...

Keyword:

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

Christianity

Netherlands

illuminations (paintings)

binding (textile material)

Prayers and devotions

Dutch (culture or style)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_257.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_257/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia