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)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• van Ess, Leander, 1772-1847, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/34580474)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 49
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 39
• Phillipps: 493

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders?
Cologne?

Summary

This manuscript is a compact, early-fifteenth-century Breviary from Flanders or Cologne containing texts for the Little Office of the Virgin followed by the Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany (end lacking).

Notes

• Paper reinforcements pasted into gutters at fols. 30v-31r, 40v-41r, 41v-42r, 42v-43r, 43v-44r, 73v-74r, 74v-75r, 75v-76r; later prayers (eighteenth century?) pasted over text at fol. 5r; Inscriptions of similar date on upper and lower pastedowns; loose page fragment consisting of a lower third of a page inserted into book between fols. 29v and 30r
   

Extent

76, with two loose leaves (one original and one a later note); lacking end; 120 x 92 mm bound to 128 x 95 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-4 (10), 5 (4), 6 (9, +9), 7-8 (10), 9 (3, +3)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary vellum over wooden boards, remains of clasp

Layout

One column of nineteen lines; written area: 95 x 65 mm

Decoration

One large initial in gold and colors with foliate decoration within a trilateral border of leafy sprays; several smaller initials in gold and colors; capitals in red and blue; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 108; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 493; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 676; to Albert for John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; 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. 2031, no. 39.
• 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), p. 55, no. 49.

Keywords

• Breviary
• 15th century
• Flanders
• Germany
• Gothic
• Flemish
• German
• Illumination
• Liturgy
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Little Office of the Virgin; incipit: Deus in adiutorium meum intende...
• fol. 70r — Penitential Psalms and Litany

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 1r — Foliate border of leafy sprays
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial B
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 17v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 19r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 23r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 25v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial D
• Loose leaf recto — Decorated initial B
• fol. 35v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 36v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 58v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 60v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 63v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial C
• Loose leaf recto — Decorated initial B
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial D