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

Title

Prayer book

Other related names

• Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/10005310)
• 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 178
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 107

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Low German, Low Saxon

Origin

Place

Cologne?, Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a small but thick mid-fifteenth-century Latin prayer book with numerous prayers to Christ, Mary, and the saints. Twenty rather primitive miniatures depict events or objects from the Gospels and portraits of saints. It was written in Germany in textualis script, with a few prayers in Low German at the end (fols. 259v-261r) in a different hand. Its flyleaves are fragments from an earlier manuscript on paper of Aristotle's Metaphysics, but the volume was rebound in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

Notes

• Front and back flyleaves: Fragments from an earlier, possibly 13th-century, manuscript on paper of Aristotle's Metaphysics (modern foliation 1 (Metaphysics Book 15, Chapters 22 and 24) and 262 (Book 7, Chapters 3 and 4))
   
• Small paper manuscript fragments perhaps used as bookmarks now between fols. 217-218 and 253-254 are from the same Aristotle manuscript as the flyleaves and not included in foliation
   

Extent

I+264+i; 108 x 76 mm bound to 117 x 80 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; four folios foliated as 71 bis, 75 bis, 134 bis, 208 bis; flyleaves, which are fragments from another manuscript are labeled as folios, but they are not included in the collation model

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century vellum over wooden boards stamped with woodcuts by William Harcourt Hooper; two clasps; bound for William Harcourt Hooper

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; prickings visible on some leaves; written area: 70 x 48 mm

Decoration

Twenty miniatures in gold and colors with trilateral floral borders; seven decorative initials with similar borders; capitals, some more elaborate in gold and colors, others in plain gold or red and blue; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Colophon

1-3 (8), 4 (10), 5-16 (8), 17 (7, +6), 18-21 (8), 22 (7, +3), 23 (8), 24 (12), 25-28 (8), 29 (7, +7), 30 (8), 31 (7, +5), 32 (14)

Provenance

• Made for a woman named Katherine whose coat-of-arms is at the foot of the Cross in the miniature of the Descent (bend chequered azure and gules, fol. 183v) and whose name is in the prayer beginning on fol. 104v; William Harcourt Hooper sale, Sotheby's, London, July 15, 1912, no. 185; to Lewine; obtained from Voynich by John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1916; 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. 107.
• 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. 192, no. 178 (+ Supplement).

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 15th century
• Christian
• Germany
• Heraldry
• Woodcuts
• Miniature
• Gospels

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. Flyleaf 1 recto; f. 1r — Latin Metaphysics
• fol. Flyleaf 1 recto; f. 262r — Latin Metaphysics
• fol. Flyleaf 1 verso; f. 262v — Latin Metaphysics
• Inside back cover — Pastedown, Latin Metaphysics

Decorations

• Front cover — Front cover
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, William Harcourt Hooper
• fol. 2r — Five line illuminated initial O and border
• fol. 4v — Full-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 7v — Full-page miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 20v — Full-page miniature, Flagellation of Christ
• fol. 24v — Full-page miniature, Christ carrying the Cross
• fol. 30v — Full-page miniature, Pietà
• fol. 38v — Five line illuminated initial O and border
• fol. 45v — Four line illuminated initial O
• fol. 51v — Large illuminated initial I
• fol. 55v — Full-page miniature, Resurrection
• fol. 56r — Five line illuminated initial O and border
• fol. 57v — Four line illuminated initial L
• fol. 72v — Full-page miniature, Agony in the Garden
• fol. 73r — Five line illuminated initial E and border
• fol. 105v — Four line illuminated initial E and border
• fol. 113v — Full-page miniature, Christ Child and Agnus Dei with Instruments of the Passion
• fol. 114r — Five line illuminated initial O
• fol. 121v — Full-page miniature, Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion
• fol. 122r — Four line illuminated initial O
• fol. 124v — Full-page miniature, Saint Veronica
• fol. 129v — Full-page miniature, Christ seated with robe and orb, surrounded by poetic names of Jesus
• fol. 130r — Four line illuminated initial O
• fol. 143v — Full-page miniature, Agnus Dei
• fol. 144r — Six line illuminated initial S and border
• fol. 183v — Full-page miniature, Descent from the Cross
• fol. 184r — Six line illuminated initial S
• fol. 196r — Five line illuminated initial A and border
• fol. 202v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child and Saint Bernard
• fol. 228v — Full-page miniature, Saint John with poisoned chalice and serpent
• fol. 231v — Full-page miniature, Saint Christopher
• fol. 240v — Full-page miniature, Saint Mary Magdalene with jar and book
• fol. 241v — Full-page miniature, Saint Agnes
• fol. 244v — Full-page miniature, Saint Barbara
• fol. 245v — Full-page miniature, Saint Ursula
• Back cover — Back cover