Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 5:20: Book of 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 5:20: Book of 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 5:20: Book of 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. 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. United States Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts Lewis E M 5:20 Latin Book of Hours

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