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

Lewis E M 18:5-8 Book of Hours

Title

Book of Hours

Funders

Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E M 18:5-8
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Dutch, Flemish

Origin

1475-1499

Place: Holland, Netherlands

Notes

Initial G
The initial on this leaf marks the beginning of Prime of the Hours of Eternal Wisdom, a cycle of devotions popular in the Netherlands in the late Middle Ages.
Initial G
The initial on this leaf marks the beginning of Sext of Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Entombment of Christ
The miniature marks the beginning of Compline of the Hours of the Cross.
This image is of an opening of a bifolium with from a Dutch book of hours. The text is not continuous. The verso contains part of the Prayers of St. Gregory. The text on the recto includes the beginning of 'Nunc dimittis suum tuum' (Now send your servant), a Canticle recited during Compline of the Hours of the Virgin
Initial O
The rubrics and initial mark the beginning of Prayers by St. Gregory to the Passion of Our Lord. This leaf is the first folio of a bifolium (or two conjoined leaves).
These leaves belong to a group of leaves in the Free Library's collections that were removed from the same Dutch book of hours (Lewis E M 18:5-8).

Extent

145 x 185 mm

Support

Parchment

Script

Hybrida

Keywords

15th century
Book of Hours
Devotion
Netherlands
Dutch
Fragment

Licenses

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