Lewis E M 5:20 Book of Hours
Title
Book of HoursFunders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
Lewis E M 5:20(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)
Publisher
Free Library of PhiladelphiaLanguage
LatinOrigin
1400-1450
- Place
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Flanders
Notes
- St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
- This miniature probably prefaced the Suffrage to St. Christopher in a book of hours. According to his legend, a small child asked St. Christopher, a man of fearsome size, to carry him across a river. The weight of the child was much greater than any weight the giant had carried before. When the giant inquired, the child revealed that he was Christ and that he was so heavy because he bore the sins of the world. The miniature was painted by an artist who has been associated with the Flemish scribe Guillebert de Metz.
- This image shows the reverse of a fragment with a full-page miniature from a book of hours. The Latin text is an excerpt of a prayer.
Extent
124 x 180 mmSupport
ParchmentKeywords
- 15th century
- Book of Hours
- Devotion
- Belgium
- Flemish
- Fragment
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