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

Title

Prayer book

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92013806.html)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Barnard, P.M., former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 177
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 106

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France?
Germany?

Summary

This manuscript contains a prayer book consisting of fragments of three different manuscripts.

Notes

• Collation note: Appears to be quired in gatherings of eight; manuscript consists of fragments from at least three different manuscripts bound together; no evidence of catchwords or contemporary foliation
   

Extent

86; 110 x 82 mm bound to 122 x 95 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; inconsistent modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (8), 3 (9, -7 -8 +9), 4 (2) [Quire 4 is a subquire of Quire 3, occurring between leaves 8 and 9], 5 (2), 6-8 (8), 9 (6), 10-12 (8), 13 (2), 14 (1, +1), 15 (2)

Support

Parchment

Binding

De Ricci: English paper boards, ca 1830 (by the Phillipps binder)

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 10 lines; fol. 25 (insert) in one column of 22 lines; written area: 71 x 55 mm

Decoration

One three-line initial in colors on a gold ground; two- and three-line pen-flourished decorated initials in red and blue throughout; one-line initials in red or blue throughout; rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• No. 34 in an old collection; Leander van Ess (1772-1847), Darmstadt, no. 59; sold in 1824 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), no. 444=21986; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, no. 677, to P. M. Barnard; 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. 2043, no. 106.
• 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. 191, no. 177 (+Supplement).

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 13th century
• Christian
• France
• Germany

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Prayer Book

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Three line illuminated D
• fol. 4v — Two line decorated initial D
• fol. 8r — Two line decorated initial M
• fol. 11r — Two line decorated initial D
• fol. 15r — Two line decorated initial N
• fol. 16r — Two line decorated initial D
• fol. 18v — Three line decorated initial K
• fol. 28r — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 31v — Two line decorated initial D
• fol. 34r — Two line decorated initial U
• fol. 53v — Three line decorated initial H
• fol. 61v — Two line decorated initial Q
• fol. 79r — Four line decorated initial L
• fol. 82r — Four line decorated initial L
• fol. 85r — Three line decorated initial P
• fol. 86v — Four line decorated initial F