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

Title

Prayer against the plague; Prayer book

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Richardson, Thomas F., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 175
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 108
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2955

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This manuscript contains a late 15th-century prayer book in Latin with headings in Italian.

Notes

• Portion of the prayers written backwards
   

Extent

I+121+iii; 76 x 52 mm bound to 78 x 58 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, and inconsistent modern foliation in pencil lower right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain; appears to have been originally quired in gatherings of 12

Support

Parchment

Binding

17th century blind tooled calf panels inlaid in the sides, brown morocco back, gilt edges, in brown morocco case

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; written area: 47 x 35 mm

Decoration

Thirty-one full page miniatures in gold and colors with borders containing human figures, beasts, mottoes, and flowers; three full-page borders; one historiated initial; nine decorated and illuminated initials with foliate borders; illuminated initials in text; one half-page tau cross; two-line initials in red and blue throughout; rubrication throughout; decorative pen flourishes and faces in the margins; over fifty smaller initials, some within full page borders, most in colors on a gold ground

Script

Gothic -textualis

Provenance

• Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• 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. 2043, no. 175.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 187-89, no. 175 (+ Supplement).
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2955/)

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 16th century
• Flemish
• Miniature
• Illumination
• Gothic
• Flanders
• Liturgy
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Prayers against the Plague
• fol. 7r — Calendar

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Ownership inscription
• fol. 1v — Tau cross
• fol. 3v — Encircled text deco
• fol. 9v — Marginalia
• fol. 20v — Table
• fol. 21r — Table
• fol. 21v — Diagram
• fol. 22r — Diagram
• fol. 22v — Table
• fol. 23r — Table
• fol. 25v — Miniature, Salvator Mundi
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial with foliate border, Initial S
• fol. 27v — Decorated initial with foliate border, Initial D
• fol. 28v — Miniature, Jesus Carrying the Cross
• fol. 34v — Miniature, Nativity
• fol. 39r — Miniature, Mary nursing Jesus
• fol. 41v — Full page border
• fol. 42r — Miniature, Maria Regina Coeli
• fol. 42v — Miniature, Maria Ancilla Trinitatis
• fol. 43r — Decorated initial and foliate border, Initial A
• fol. 44v — Decorated initial with foliate border
• fol. 48r — Decorated initial with foliate border
• fol. 50v — Miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 53r — Miniature, Blessed Trinity
• fol. 56r — Decorated initial with foliate border, Initial B
• fol. 57v — Marginalia
• fol. 59r — Historiated initial
• fol. 59r — Foliate border
• fol. 59v — Marginalia
• fol. 60r — Marginalia
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial with foliate border, Initial O
• fol. 61v — Marginalia
• fol. 63v — Miniature, Mass of Saint Gregory
• fol. 64r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 65r — Marginalia
• fol. 65v — Marginalia
• fol. 66r — Marginalia
• fol. 67v — Miniature, Five Wounds of Christ
• fol. 68r — Decorated initial and foliate border
• fol. 69v — Marginalia
• fol. 71r — Marginalia
• fol. 71v — Marginalia
• fol. 72r — Marginalia
• fol. 72v — Marginalia
• fol. 73r — Marginalia
• fol. 74v — Miniature, Archangel Michael
• fol. 75v — Marginalia
• fol. 76r — Miniature, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 76v — Miniature, Saint John the Evangelist
• fol. 77r — Foliate border
• fol. 78r — Miniature, S.S. Peter and Paul
• fol. 78v — Miniature, Saint James
• fol. 80v — Miniature, Saint Stephen
• fol. 82r — Miniature, Saint Lawrence
• fol. 82v — Miniature, Saint Christopher
• fol. 83v — Marginalia
• fol. 84r — Marginalia
• fol. 85r — Miniature, Saint Sebastian
• fol. 87r — Miniature, Saint Dionysius
• fol. 87v — Miniature, Saint Lambert
• fol. 88v — Marginalia
• fol. 90r — Miniature, Saint Nicholas
• fol. 90v — Miniature, Saint Martin
• fol. 91v — Mirror writing
• fol. 92r — Miniature, Saint Anthony
• fol. 92v — Miniature, Saint Servatius
• fol. 94v — Miniature, Saint Anna
• fol. 96v — Miniature, Saint Mary Magdalene
• fol. 99r — Miniature, Saint Barbara
• fol. 100r — Marginalia
• fol. 101r — Miniature, Saint Apollonia
• fol. 103v — Marginalia
• fol. 105v — Miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 106r — Full page border
• fol. 112r — Full page border
• fol. 115v — Marginalia
• fol. 116v — Miniature, Saint Roch