(Q21021)
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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Extent: iii+434+i; 200 x 130 mm bound to 210 x 146 mm; parchment
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The liturgy of the missal follows the Dominican liturgy established by Humbert of Romans, Master General of the Dominican Order (1254-1263); text bears resemblance to London, British Library, Add. Ms. 23935; several entries in calendar suggest Dominican usage, including Saint Thomas Aquinas [January 28 (translation) and March 7], Peter Martyr [April 29], Dominic [May 24 (translation), and...
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Although Robert Branner ("The Johannes Grusch Atelier and the Continental Origins of the William of Devon Painter," Art Bulletin 54, 1 [1972], p. 30; idem., Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977], p. 82) dated the manuscript to 1262-1265 on stylistic grounds, there are no internal elements that confirm...
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An abbreviated liturgy for the Feast of Corpus Christi is inscribed in the lower margin of fol. 229r in an early-fourteenth-century Italian hand
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Binding: Brown levant morocco, gilt frame sides, gilt edges, chased clasps, by Kerr and Richardson of Glasgow, lower clasp inscribed with initials A.J., inscribed in gold on spine: "Missal. Ordinis fratrum praedicatorum s. dominici. Secolo xiii."; nineteenth century
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Layout: Two columns of thirty lines, lead point ruling; four-line red musical staves with square notation throughout; thirteen historiated initials with short marginal extensions; seventeen decorated initials with interlaced strap design; penwork initials in red and blue with long marginal extensions throughout; written area: 136 x 88 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis
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Script: The missal contains writing by two contemporary French scribes; the main portion of the text was executed by first scribe; fols. 20v-21v were executed by a second scribe; several entries in the calendar and the inscriptions on fols. 183r and 184r were executed after 1309 by an Italian scribe; the Prayers of Saint Ambrose (fols. 431v-432v) were added by an Italian scribe later in the...
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Decoration: Thirteen historiated initials by the Johannes Grusch workshop: David before the Lord (fol. 24r), Nativity (fol. 42r), Crucifixion (fol. 183r), Resurrection (fol. 186r), Ascension (fol. 208v), Pentecost (fol. 216r), Holy Trinity (fol. 227r), Dedication of the Church (fol. 269v), Saint Andrew being nailed to the cross (fol. 273r), Annunciation (fol. 293v), Dormition of the Virgin...
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Related resource: 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. 2030, no. 31.
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Related resource: 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 Library, 1937), p. 170.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 13.
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Related resource: Branner, Robert, "The Johannes Grusch Atelier and the Continental Origins of the William of Devon Painter," Art Bulletin 54, no. 1 (1972): p. 30 (article pp. 24–30).
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Related resource: Branner, Robert, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), p. 82.
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Provenance: Italy (Sicily?), late thirteenth-seventeenth centuries; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Two identical prayers in the margins indicate an early Italian provenance and provide a terminus ante quem date for production; inscriptions in lower margins of fols. 183r (partially erased) and 184r in...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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