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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85199995.html)
• 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 116
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 96

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian Book of Hours, Use of Rome. It is a small-scale volume of text only, with rubrication and catchwords its only decoration. The text comprises the Hours of the Virgin, the Office of the Dead, partial Hours of the Cross, and Hours of the Holy Spirit.

Notes

• Leaves missing at the beginning of the last quire including text from the Short Hours of the Holy Cross (before fol. 115)
   

Extent

Ii+120+ii; 90 x 60 mm bound to 95 x 70 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper-right hand corner

Collation

1-7 (10), 8 (4), 9-12 (10), 13 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

On last verso of gathering, center lower margin; with simple decoration in ink; in red when referring to rubrics

Binding

Italian eighteenth-century red morocco; gilt floral design on the covers, gilt spine and edges; in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf case

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines sometimes visible; written area: 50 x 30 mm

Decoration

Rubrication and one-line initials in red ink throughout; four- and eight-line calligraphic red initials at major text divisions

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Sale, Henkels, Philadelphia, June 10, 1896, no. 117; Samuel W. Pennypacker, his sale, Philadelphia, April 25, 1906, II, no. 412 (sale catalogue description pasted on verso of last flyleaf); (directly to?) 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. 2041, no. 96.
• 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. 130, no. 116.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Book of Hours
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Gothic

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 116: Book of Hours, Use of Rome are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 116: Book of Hours, Use of Rome. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 75r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 115r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 116r — Hours of the Holy Spirit

Decorations

• Flyleaf 2 verso — Manuscript description
• fol. 1r — Seven line large initial D
• fol. 30v — Text below the passage
• fol. 84v — Text below the passage "EM"
• fol. 104v — Text below the passage "UI"
• fol. 109v — Five line initial D
• fol. 116r — Five line initial D
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Manuscript description
• Foldout verso (folded) — Manuscript description
• Foldout recto (unfolded) — Manuscript description