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

Title

Breviary, Use of Ghent

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 50
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 37

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Ghent?, Belgium

Summary

A Breviary of the Use of Ghent containing a calendar, tables, ferial psalter, and concluding prayers added in a different, but early, hand. Amendations to the calendar indicate a change of use early in the manuscript's history. The major textual divisions are marked by illuminated letters two-to-five lines high and three- or four-sided panels of acanthus leaf sprays.

Extent

Iiii+329+iii; 148 x 106 mm bound to 155 x 117 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2 (2), 3-33 (10), 34 (12, -12)

Signatures

Cropped signatures visible at: fols. 271r, 272r, 273r, 274r, 279r, 280r, 281r, 282r, 283r, 299r, 300r, 319r

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Cropped catchwords visible at: fols. 268v, 278v, 288v, 298v, 308v, 318v

Binding

Brown morocco with gold edges, in a case

Layout

Thirty-two lines per page in two columns, ruled in ink; written area: 106 x 74 mm

Decoration

The major textual divisions are marked by illuminated letters two-to-five lines high and three- or four-sided panels of acanthus leaf sprays

Script

Gothic--textualis

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Belgium
• Christian
• Illumination
• Private devotional text
• Devotion
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 7r — Breviary Tables
• fol. 9r — Temporale
• fol. 138v — Ferial Psalter followed by litany, petitions, and collects
• fol. 198r — Hymns
• fol. 204v — Common of Saints
• fol. 216r — Sanctorale
• fol. 325r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 327v — Office of the Virgin for Advent
• fol. 328v — Absolutions and Benedictions
• fol. 329r — Prayers to martyrs, Bonaventure, Louis, Elzéar, and Anastasia [in a different hand]

Decorations

• fol. 9r — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 9r — Four-sided border
• fol. 24v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 24v — Four-sided border
• fol. 38v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 38v — Four-sided border
• fol. 93r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 93r — Four-sided border
• fol. 106r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 106r — Three-sided border
• fol. 108v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 108v — Four-sided border
• fol. 114r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 114r — Three-sided border
• fol. 138v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 138v — Four-sided border
• fol. 143r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 145r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 145r — Three-sided border
• fol. 151r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 151r — Three-sided border
• fol. 159r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 159r — Three-sided border
• fol. 166r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 166r — Three-sided border
• fol. 171v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 171v — Three-sided border
• fol. 184r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 184r — Three-sided border
• fol. 198r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 198r — Three-sided border
• fol. 204v — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 204v — Three-sided border
• fol. 208v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 208v — Three-sided border
• fol. 209r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 209r — Three-sided border
• fol. 210v — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 210v — Three-sided border
• fol. 212v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 212v — Three-sided border
• fol. 214r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 214r — Three-sided border
• fol. 216r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 216r — Four-sided border
• fol. 231r — Historiated initial E
• fol. 231r — Three-sided border
• fol. 278r — Historiated initial I
• fol. 278r — Three-sided border
• fol. 285v — Historiated initial L
• fol. 285v — Three-sided border
• fol. 291r — Historiated initial A
• fol. 291r — Three-sided border
• fol. 313v — Historiated initial E
• fol. 313v — Three-sided border