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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 117
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 98

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Leaves have been excised throughout.

Notes

• Some headings in Italian
   
• Leaves have been excised throughout; very small stubs remain
   

Extent

I+260+i; 110x75 mm bound to 100x70mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in crayon, upper corner recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (2), 3-6 (10), 7 (10, -5), 8 (9, -8 +8), 9 (10, -6), 10 (10), 11 (10, -7), 12 (10), 13 (10, -2 -3), 14 (10, -4 -9), 15 (10, -5), 16-21 (10), 22 (10, -5), 23-25 (10), 26 (10, -2), 27 (10), 28 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal center of margin verso: fols. 24v, 34v, 44v, 54v, 63v, 71v, 80v, 90v, 99v, 109v, 117v, 125v, 134v, 144v, 154v, 164v, 174v, 184v, 203v, 213, 223v, 233v, 242v, 252v

Binding

Early nineteenth-century black morocco, in blue morocco case

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of eleven lines; written area: 51x40 mm

Decoration

Seven four-line illuminated initials; six historiated illuminated initials with full-page borders; one-line and two-line initials in red and blue throughout; two-line initials decorated with pen flourishes in red or blue; rubrication throughout; one full-page illuminated miniature of the Virgin and Child enthroned

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• 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. 2042, no. 98.
• 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. 131, no. 117 (+ Supplement).

Subjects topical

• Books of hours
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic
• Italy

Genres

• Liturgical use

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Book of Hours
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Illumination
• Historiated initial
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Gothic

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Prayer to St. Anthony of Padua on a flyleaf in a 16th century hand
• fol. 14v — Miniature, Virgin and child enthroned
• fol. 15r — Six line historiated initial D, Saint Anthony of Padua
• fol. 32v — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 52r — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 59r — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 65v — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 71r — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 77v — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 90v — Three line decorated initial C
• fol. 121r — Seven line historiated initial O
• fol. 125r — Six line decorated initial M, Cross
• fol. 130r — Seven line decorated initial O, Skull
• fol. 200r — Seven line historiated initial O
• fol. 235r — Eight line historiated initial, King David
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Prayer to St. Anthony of Padua on a flyleaf in a 16th century hand