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

Title

Breviary

Other related names

• Gherardo, del Fora, approximately 1444-1497, artist (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92042053.html)
• Mariano, del Buono di Jacopo, 1433-1504, artist (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99002629.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner
• Clark, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1833-1906, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92041870.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 52
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 52

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a breviary.

Extent

I+39+i; 252 x 187 mm bound to 260 x 195 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century Italian red morocco, elaborate gilt foliate decorations on the sides, gilt back, gilt edges, in cloth case

Layout

Some evidence of ruling in hard point; text in one column of eighteen to twenty lines surrounded by borders; written area: 221x168 mm

Decoration

Three historiated initials in gold and colors; two decorated initials; gold initials against background with small penwork landscapes throughout; one to two-line initials in red throughout; rubrication in red and gold; each page within a full foliate border, primarily of a rose design with flowers in gold, silver, and colors; the three historiated initials and two decorative initials were removed from a fifteenth-century Italian (Lombardy) liturgical book and pasted into the present manuscript

Script

Humanistic

Father Eliseus Bonettus of Milan (scribe)

Provenance

• Father Eliseus Bonettus of Milan to the Reverend Father Theodorus Cambius, Vicar of Mantua; Clarence H. Clark, Esq. (Chestnutwold, Philadelphia), his sale, Philadelphia, 1909, I, no. 184; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Breviary
• 16th century
• Italy
• Christian
• Historiated initial
• Notable binding

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Clarence H. Clark
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 1r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 2r — Ten line historiated initial E, King David or Soloman
• fol. 24r — Six line historiated initial E, Saint Paul
• fol. 26r — Nine line historiated initial Q, Saint Albert Avogadro
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Print catalog entry