Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Breviary

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 51
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 40

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Naples, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a Breviary with readings for the weekday Offices, accompanied by a calendar, prayers to the body of Christ, the Passion according to John, Penitential Psalms, litany, Athanasian Creed, and readings for the Mass of the Virgin.

Extent

Ii+204+iv; 172 x 121 mm bound to 181 x 124 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (6), 3-25 (8), 26 (4), 27 (6, -5 -6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower margin of versos at fols. 20v; 28v; 36v; 44v; downward facing at bottom right at fols. 52v; 60v; 68v; 76v; 84v; 92v; 108v; 116v; 124v; 140v; 148v; 156v; 164v; 172v; 180v; 188v; 196v

Binding

Full brown morocco, gilt back, corner, and center ornaments

Layout

Fourteen-to-sixteen lines per page, single column, ruled in ink; written area: 89 x 63 mm

Decoration

Roundel miniatures with labors of the month and zodiac figures for the calendar; two small miniatures and one historiated border; seven seven- and eight-line historiated initials; numerous two-to-four-line ornamental initials; marginal decorations

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Given by John Frederick Lewis' widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Breviary
• 15th century
• Christian
• Italian
• Gothic
• Historiated initial
• Illustration
• Italy
• Devotion
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 13r — Sunday Office of the Holy Trinity
• fol. 24r — Monday Office of the Dead
• fol. 40r — Tuesday Office of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 52r — Wednesday Office of All Saints
• fol. 63r — Thursday Office of Corpus Christi
• fol. 76r — Friday Office of the Holy Cross
• fol. 89r — Saturday Office of the Virgin
• fol. 101r — Prayers to the Body and Blood of Christ
• fol. 110r — Passion according to John and prayers
• fol. 117r — Prayers to the Virgin
• fol. 133r — Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 167r — Mass of the Virgin

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 1r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 2r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 2r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 3r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 3r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 4r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 4r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 5r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 5r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 6r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 6r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 7r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 7r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 8r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 8r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 9r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 9r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 10r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 10r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 11r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 11r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 12r — Roundel, zodiac
• fol. 12r — Roundel, labor of the month
• fol. 13r — Miniature, Abraham and the Three Angels
• fol. 13r — Historiated border, putti
• fol. 24r — Historiated Initial, funeral
• fol. 40r — Historiated initial, Pentecost
• fol. 52r — Historiated initial, All Saints
• fol. 63r — Historiated initial, Christ the Redeemer
• fol. 76r — Historiated initial, Crucifixion
• fol. 89r — Historiated initial, Virgin and Child
• fol. 101r — Illuminated initial
• fol. 133r — Miniature, Kind David Penitent
• fol. 167r — Historiated initial, Visitation