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2939  :  Hours (Paris)

Number

2939


Shelf Marks

  • Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis E 092
  • John Frederick Lewis
  • South Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), Robert Heysham Sayre (c.1900)

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : South Flanders / Paris
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450 (c.1450-1500 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 116 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 184 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 137 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 11
  • Number of miniatures : 11
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

Emblems and Heraldry

two unidentified coats of arms

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : (brown leather)
  • Dating : Unknown


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Paris)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Edwin Wolf, A descriptive catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1937, p. 100 (1 ill.)

Online Informations and images

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/LewisE092_4

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 15698-704

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman