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This Prayer Book, which contains prayers and other devotional texts by Erasmus, Prudentius, and Marco Girolamo Vida, can be dated to circa 1540. It is illustrated with forty-five copperplate engravings depicting the Life of Christ, which are integral to the book's structure. The support is paper.
Support: Paper; Extent: i+109+i; 138 x 96 mm bound to 146 x 101 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; modern numbering of engravings in lower corner of relevant pages; Collation: 1 (8), 2 (18), 3 (20), 4 (14), 5 (16), 6 (18), 7 (10), 8 (6, +5 +6); Catchwords: Lower right recto: 70r, 75r, 76r, 89r, 90r, 95r, 97r, 98r, 99r
One column of nineteen lines; parchment scraps with gothic script used as reinforcement visible at front (with musical notation, before fol. 1) and back (with text, after fol. 109); written area: 88 x 60 mm
Humanistic
Forty copperplate engravings depicting the Life of Christ, the first colored, the subsequent engravings occupying every other leaf
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
The final flyleaf is foliated as fol. 110
Texts by Erasmus, Prudentius, and Marco Girolamo Vida identified by Nicholas Herman, March 2017
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Flanders?
circa 1540
Contemporary German stamped calf, within a border of scrolls and medallions; on each side a stamped center panel gilt showing Christ triumphing over Death, with the initials HGV (attributed to Hans von Ghent), in cloth case
Latin
Owned by Joachim, Baron von Windhag, his bookplate of 1661 on verso of first flyleaf; Eberhard von Kniestedt, his bookplate on upper pastedown; Henry Huth (The Huth Library, V, 1880, p. 1718; A. H. Huth, A catalogue of the woodcuts and engravings in the Huth library, 1910, pp. 13-14); A. H. Huth sale of engravings, Sotheby's London, July 4, 1911, no. 47; to E. Parsons; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Flanders?
circa 1540
Latin
Owned by Joachim, Baron von Windhag, his bookplate of 1661 on verso of first flyleaf; Eberhard von Kniestedt, his bookplate on upper pastedown; Henry Huth
This Prayer Book, which contains prayers and other devotional texts by Erasmus, Prudentius, and Marco Girolamo Vida, can be dated to circa 1540. It is illustrated with forty-five copperplate engravings depicting the Life of Christ, which are integral to the book's structure. The support is paper.
The final flyleaf is foliated as fol. 110
Texts by Erasmus, Prudentius, and Marco Girolamo Vida identified by Nicholas Herman, March 2017
Humanistic
Forty copperplate engravings depicting the Life of Christ, the first colored, the subsequent engravings occupying every other leaf
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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