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

Title

Prayer Book, Use of Cologne

Other related names

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

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 134
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1609075
• deRicci: 88

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

German

Origin

Place

Cologne, Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a prayer book.

Notes

• Note for script: At least five different hands can be identified: 1: fols.1r-12v, 2: fols. 13r-51v, 3: fols. 52r-75v, 4: fols. 76r-127v, and 5: fols. 128r-235v
   

Extent

I+235+i; 97 x 66 mm bound to 104 x 69 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil lower right recto fols. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12; a few quire signatures extant in lower right recto fols. 39, 40, 53, 54, 56, 80

Collation

Structure uncertain; it appears to have been quired in gatherings of ten to twelve; no extant catchwords; stubs located between fols. 36 and 37, 52 and 53, and three stubs located between fols. 232 and 233

Signatures

fols. 39, 40, 53, 54, 56, 80

Support

Paper

Catchwords

No evidence of catchwords, except for one cut in half located in the gutter of fol. 95v

Binding

Original vellum over wooden boards, with (modern ?) clasp; "MISSAL" written in ink on spine

Layout

One column of fifteen to twenty lines; ruled in hardpoint and lead; written area: 75 x 50 mm

Decoration

One and two-line initials in red or blue throughout; large initials decorated with pen-flourishing in red, blue, green, yellow (fols. 13r, 41r, 76r, 78v, 94v, 100r, 107r, 118v, 128r, 132r, 143r, 149v, 152v, 158v, 162v, 165v, 170r); rubrication throughout; some blank spaces for initials

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "Gilbert" written in pencil on fol. 2r; catalogue entry pasted onto pastedown of inside of front cover
   

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. 2039, no. 88.
• 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. 148, no. 134.
• Philip E. Webber. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries." Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 493-494.

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 16th century
• Christian
• Germany
• Original binding

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, Cologne Use
• fol. 13r — Ten Psalms spoken by Our Lord on the Cross
• fol. 41r — The Seven Last Words
• fol. 46v — The Eight verses revealed to Saint Bernard
• fol. 49r — The Five Names of Our Lord
• fol. 52r — Devotional Exercise to Saint Barbara
• fol. 58v — Ten Virtues of the Virgin
• fol. 62r — A Devotional Exercise for use with the Pater Noster
• fol. 76r — Our Lord's Mantel for the Days of the Week
• fol. 132r — Prayers
• fol. 143r — Des Brudegorns crone
• fol. 178r — One Hundred Articles for the Days of the Week
• fol. 214v — The Sixty-Five Articles
• fol. 235v — Dicta

Decorations

• fol. 13r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 41v — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 76r — Seven line decorated initial O
• fol. 78v — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 88r — Three line decorated initial W
• fol. 100r — Four line decorated initial W
• fol. 107r — Four line decorated initial W
• fol. 114r — Four line decorated initial W
• fol. 128r — Eight line decorated initial U
• fol. 132r — Eight line decorated initial O
• fol. 143r — Eight line decorated initial O
• fol. 147r — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 149v — Four line decorated initial M
• fol. 152v — Five line decorated initial S
• fol. 158v — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 162v — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 165v — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 170r — Six line decorated initial H