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/)
• Hoe, Robert, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003231.html)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 120
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 102

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Naples, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rome.

Extent

Iii+121+iii; 185x132 mm bound to 190x136 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2-10 (8), 11 (10), 12 (8), 13-14 (10), 15 (6, -6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal center of margin verso in black ink decorated with pen flourishes; fols. 14v, 22v, 30v, 46v, 54v, 62v, 70v, 78v, 108v, 118v

Binding

Nineteenth-century green velvet with gilt edges

Layout

Frame-ruled in red ink; One column of twenty-two lines; written area: 105x79 mm

Decoration

Fifteen historiated initials; five-line, three-line, and one-line initials in red, blue and gold with pen flourishing throughout; rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Provenance

• Robert Hoe (sold 1912); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Bookplates of Robert Hoe and John Frederick Lewis on front inside cover
   

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
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Historiated initial
• Gothic

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 7r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 39r — Penitential Psalms
• fol. 44v — Litany
• fol. 50r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 53r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 69r — Hours of the Virgin

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplates, inside front cover
• fol. 7r — Eleven line historiated initial D, Annunciation
• fol. 7r — Decorated border
• fol. 12r — Eight line historiated initial D, Visitation
• fol. 17v — Nine line historiated initial D, Nativity
• fol. 19v — Ten line historiated initial D, Adoration of the magi
• fol. 21v — Six line historiated initial D, Resurrection
• fol. 23v — Nine line historiated initial D, Ascension
• fol. 25v — Nine line historiated initial D, Pentecost
• fol. 29r — Nine line historiated initial C, Assumption of the Virgin
• fol. 39r — Ten line historiated Initial D, David in Prayer
• fol. 39r — Decorated border
• fol. 50r — Ten line historiated initial D, Man of Sorrows
• fol. 50r — Decorated border
• fol. 53r — Twelve line historiated initial D, Corpse with scroll
• fol. 53r — Decorated border
• fol. 69r — Six line Historiated initial D, Annunciation
• fol. 74v — Six line historiated initial O, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 83v — Five line decorated initial E
• fol. 90r — Five line decorated initial D
• fol. 97r — Eight line Historiated initial M, Madonna and Child
• fol. 99v — Five line decorated initial S
• fol. 121r — Decorated text at the bottom of the page
• fol. 121v — Large historiated initial D, Woman venerating a crucifix