Book of Hours, use of Rome; Litany and Prayers (DS4473) (Q20919)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 119, Lewis E 119)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Book of Hours, use of Rome; Litany and Prayers (DS4473) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 119, Lewis E 119) |
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Book of Hours, use of Rome; Litany and Prayers
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Birago, Giovan Pietro, active 1471-1513
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Richardson, Thomas F.
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1400-1499
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: i+63+i; 246 x 168 mm bound to 249 x 182 mm; parchment
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The first inserted leaf is from a Neapolitan Psalter, mid 15th century; the second inserted leaf is from a Netherlandish book of Hours, mid 15th century
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On the large miniature of the Virgin in Glory following the Calendar: the artist is Giovanni Pietro Birago, active in Brecia, Milan, and Venice; there may be some repainting in the illumination; the shield contains the Este arms, but this may be a later addition
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Binding: 19th-century red velvet, with gilt and gauffered edges
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Layout: Part I: ff. 56; 246 x 168 mm (text: 197 x 130 mm); 1 column of 31 lines, hard point ruling; three additional manuscript leaves inserted into the binding before fol. 1, between fols, 1 and 2 and after fol. 60
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Script: Gothic--rotunda
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Decoration: 1 full-page miniature with full border, 11 historiated initials, illuminated initials throughout, red and blue initials throughout
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Related resource: Boynton, Susan. "From Book to Song: Texts Accompanying the Man of Sorrows in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," in New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows, ed. Catherine R. Puglisi and William L. Barcham. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2014, pp. 117-143.
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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. 2042, no. 103.
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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. 133-134, no. 119.
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Provenance: Este family?; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (obtained 1919); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; On the recto of the front fly leaf, in pencil "T. F. Richardson" and, in the hand of Lewis, "Officium/Latin ms XV Siecle/(1460) 60 ff./1 full page min/10 smaller ones/Italian"; On fol. 1r, Richardson's...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Dot Porter
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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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