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Prayer Book Lewis E 179
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Free Library of Philadelphia
Manuscript Overview
References
Binding Images

Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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

Layout

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

Script

Humanistic

Decoration

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.

Notes

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Prayer book
16th century
Christian
Germany
Notable binding
Free Library of Philadelphia

Place of Origin

Flanders?

Date

circa 1540

Binding

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

Language

Latin

Provenance

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

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Place of Origin

Flanders?

Date

circa 1540

Language

Latin

Provenance

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

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

The final flyleaf is foliated as fol. 110

Texts by Erasmus, Prudentius, and Marco Girolamo Vida identified by Nicholas Herman, March 2017

Script note

Humanistic

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Prayer book
16th century
Christian
Germany
Notable binding
Free Library of Philadelphia
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