Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 3:6: Psalter-Hours contributor David Kalish cataloger Dot Porter Council on Library and Information Resources Free Library of Philadelphia These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E M 3:6: Psalter-Hours are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E M 3:6: Psalter-Hours. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Initials U, D, D, and X These initials from a Psalter-Hours are typical of the style of illumination from the Mosan region in Belgium in the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Sister cuttings from the same manuscript can be found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. This cutting can be dated to ca. 1270. United States Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts Lewis E M 3:6 Latin Psalter-Hours

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