Book of Hours, use of Paris (DS4449) (Q20847)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 95, Lewis E 95)
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Book of Hours, use of Paris (DS4449)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 95, Lewis E 95)

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    Book of Hours, use of Paris
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    Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
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    Extent: i+140+i; 205 x 138 mm bound to 214 x 146 mm; parchment
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    Worm eaten (?) holes in binding
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    Binding: Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards, the sides decorated with panels of various roll designs; gilt edges
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    Layout: One column of seventeen lines, ruled in faint red ink; some prickings are visible on the outer edges of the pages (the fore-edge); written area: 126 x 108 mm
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    Script: Gothic--textualis
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    Decoration: Nine three-quarter page arched miniatures: Saint John the Evangelist in Boiling Oil (fol. 13r), Annunciation (fol. 23r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 51v), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 55v), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 59r), Flight into Egypt (fol. 63r), Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 69r), King David in Prayer (fol. 74r), Pentecost (fol. 94v); seventeen small square...
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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. 2038, no. 80.
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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 Free Library, 1937), p. 104, no. 95.
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    Related resource: Reinburg, Virginia, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-600 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012), p. 247.
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    Provenance: Collection of T. Whitcombe Greene ?; Sotheby's sale London, 7 July 1913, n. 353 through Charles Sessler, bookseller, Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; typed notes on the stationery of Charles Sessler adhered to pastedown of back cover; written in pencil on inside of back cover...
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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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