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

Title

Prayer book

Other related names

• Gratz, Simon, 1840-1925, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99029010.html)
• Strong, George T., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 207
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Milan, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a prayer book.

Extent

Iv+52+iv; 194 x 132 mm bound to 198 x 138 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain (binding is quite tight)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern blue morocco, bound by the Lakeside Press

Layout

Frame-ruled, every line ruled; one column of six to twelve lines; written area: 113 x 77 mm

Decoration

Four half-page miniatures; two historiated initials; decorated two and one-line initials throughout; rubrication throughout; floral line fillers

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• George T. Strong (no. 12, sale, New York, 1878, lot 829); presented in 1925 by Simon Gratz
   

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 16th century
• Christian
• Historiated initial
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Italy
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 21r — Penitential Psalms

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Small miniature, Presentation of Christ
• fol. 2r — Small miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 2r — Stamp, "GIFT OF SIMON GRATZ, ESQ., November 1925"
• fol. 3r — Small miniature, Assumption
• fol. 4r — Small miniature, Nativity of Virgin Mary
• fol. 5r — Three historiated initial O, Virgin Mary and Christ Child
• fol. 10v — Two line decorated initial M and floral border
• fol. 17r — Two line decorated initial M and floral border
• fol. 21r — Historiated initial, King David
• fol. 22v — Two line decorated initial B and floral border
• fol. 24v — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 28r — Two line decorated initial M and floral border
• fol. 30v — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 31r — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 38v — Two line decorated initial C and floral border
• fol. 44v — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 47r — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 47v — Two line decorated initial O and floral border
• fol. 48r — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 48v — Two line decorated initial E and floral border
• fol. 48v — Two line decorated initial I and floral border
• fol. 49r — Two line decorated initial O and floral border
• fol. 49v — Two line decorated initial N and floral border
• fol. 50r — Two line decorated initial D and floral border
• fol. 50v — Two line decorated initial U and floral border
• fol. 50v — Two line decorated initial A and floral border