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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Follower of the master of the vitae imperatorum, artist
• Bourguet, Louis, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/46887859)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 114
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 95

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Lombardi, Italy

Summary

This is a mid-fifteenth-century Book of Hours, use of Rome.

Extent

104+ii; 119 x 87 mm bound to 126 x 90 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper corner recto

Collation

1-6 (8), 7 (2), 8-13 (8), 14 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal center of lower margin verso; fols. 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 58, 66, 74, 82, 90, 98

Binding

Early nineteenth-century mottled vellum; stamped in gold on spine, "offices de vierge" and "avec miniature"; edges speckled with red

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink, every line ruled, fifteen lines in one column; written area: 78 x 54 mm

Decoration

One- and two-line initials in red and blue with foliate and geometric designs throughout, twelve historiated initials, miniature of the Annunciation and a foliated border (fol. 1r)

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Bought at Verona, May 1698, by Louis Bourguet; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Christian
• Italy
• Historiated initial

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Small miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 9r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 18v — Historiated three line illuminated initial D, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 21v — Inhabited three line illuminated initial D, Saint holding quill; same as fol. 34v
• fol. 24v — Inhabited three line illuminated initial D, Saint holding quill
• fol. 27r — Inhabited three line illuminated initial D, Saint
• fol. 29v — Inhabited three line illuminated initial D, Saint holding red cross
• fol. 34v — Inhabited three line illuminated initial C, Saint holding quill; same as fol. 21v
• fol. 51r — Inhabited three line illuminated initial D, Saint wearing crown
• fol. 61r — Inhabited three line illuminated initial R, saint wearing mitre
• fol. 69v — Inhabited three line illuminated initial D, skull
• fol. 98r — Inhabited four line illuminated initial D; gold cross on Calvary
• fol. 101r — Four line inhabited initial D; dove with Trinity