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Title

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Other related names

• J. de Charron de Liancourt, former owner
• J.B. Cartier [or Courtier?], former owner
• Vail, Theodore Newton, 1845-1920, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86117268.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 97
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1559289
• deRicci: 75
• Leaves-of-gold: 39

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This Book of Hours of the Use of Paris was likely produced in Paris in the early sixteenth century. It begins with a calendar in French with four animal emblems in the margins (fols. 3r-14v). The following section is comprised of a prayer in French to the Three Truths ("les trois vérités," fol. 16v), the end of which is lacking. The majority of the Gospel Lesson according to John is missing (fol. 17r), and is followed by the passion according to John (fols. 17v-22r, end lacking, but introduced by a small miniature of the Agony in the Garden). The Hours of the Virgin follows, though it is lacking its beginning and its introductory miniature of the Annunciation. The remaining seven large miniatures depict the Visitation (fol 35r), Nativity (fol. 41v), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 45r), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 47v), Flight into Egypt (fol. 50r), Dormition (fol. 52v), and Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 56v). The Hours of the Virgin is followed by the Hours of the Cross, introduced by a large miniature of the Carrying of the Cross (fol. 60r). The subsequent Hours for this Office are each introduced on a new page. The Hours of the Holy Spirit is laid out in a similar fashion, introduced by a large miniature of the Pentecost (fol. 64r). The Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers are introduced by a large miniature of David and Bathsheba with two attendants (fol. 68r). The Office of the Dead, which is followed by extensive accessory prayers and Suffrages, is introduced by a miniature showing a burial scene (fol. 80r) with the Last Judgment in the background. The Stabat Mater prayer is introduced by a small miniature (fol. 115v), as are the Suffrages to Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist (fols. 117v-118r). Further prayers have been added in a bâtarde hand on folios 131r-132r. The book contains three unidentified coats-of-arms in the margins, presumably belonging to the original owner (fols. 52v, 68r and 80r).

Notes

• Modern parchment flyleaves
   
• Prayers on fols. 131r-132r written in Bâtarde, in a different hand
   
• End of Three Truths prayer and beginning of Gospel Lesson according to John lacking; end of Passion according to John and beginning of Hours of the Virgin (including miniature) lacking
   
• Saint Alexander added to calendar on 14 March (fol. 5r) in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand
   

Extent

Iii+133+iii; 177 x 120 mm bound to 186 x 133 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, recto, below lower right corner of text block

Collation

1 (9, +1), 2 (4), 3 (8, +1 +2 +3 -4 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8), 4-17 (8), 18 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4)

Support

Parchment

Binding

English, brown morocco, blind-stamped decoration; stamped in gold on inside front cover; matching slipcase; bound by Zaensdorf, 1900

Layout

One column of eighteen lines, ruled in red ink, some prickings visible: written area: 112 x 75 mm

Decoration

Eleven full-page miniatures with borders containing animals and foliage, four half-page miniatures with foliate borders, four unframed animal and floral scenes added to the margins of the calendar, illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Bâtarde

Provenance

• J. de Charron de Liancourt, Saint Quentin (1701) (inscription on fol. 133r); J.B. Cartier [or Courtier?] (1789) (inscription on fol. 133r); Theodore Newton Vail, late nineteenth.; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, May 4, 1922, lot 685 (catalog clipping on fol. 133r); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "J de Charron de Liancourt chanione de L'Eglise Royalle de Saint Quentin en vermandois 1701" on fol. 133r; inscribed "J.B. Carlier . . . 1789," on fol. 133r (Carlier was the curé of Bavai who died in 1818); Repeated use of the initials "P", "M", "T", "E" and "I" in various combinations, woven within love-knot design: fol. 35r, I and T; fol. 43r, I and E; fol. 45v, erased initial and T; fol. 49r, P and M; fol. 50v, P and M; fol. 54v, I E; fol. 60r, I and T, fol. 64r, I and T or A?; fol. 68r, P; fol. 80r, I and E, P and T, and I and T
   

Related resources

• 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. 2037, no. 75.
• 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 Library, 1937), pp. 106-107, no. 97, illus.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 20.
• Randall, Lilian M.C., with Christopher Clarkson and Jeanne Krochalis, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 2, France, 1420-1540 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), part 2, p. 439.
• Donald F. Duclow, "The Virgin's 'Good Death': The Dormition in Fifteenth-Century Drama and Art." Fifteenth-Century Studies 21 (1994), p. 62, figs. 12, 13 (article pp. 55-86).
• Donald F. Duclow, "Dying Well: The Ars moriendi and the Dormition of the Virgin," in Death and Dying in the Middle Ages, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics- Society, vol. 45 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 393-394, figs. 24, 25 (article pp. 379-429).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 119-120, no. 39.
• King'oo, Clare Costley, Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (South Bend: University of Notre Dame, 2012), p. 45 (fol. 68r).

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 16th century
• French
• France
• Heraldry
• Private devotional text
• Devotion
• Illumination

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Calendar, Use of Paris, in French
• fol. 16v — Prayer, "Les trois vérités," in French, end lacking
• fol. 17r — Gospel Lesson of John (beginning lacking), followed by Passion According to John (end lacking)
• fol. 23r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris (beginning lacking)
• fol. 60r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 64r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 68r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 80r — Office of the Dead, followed by Prayers for a Man, for a Woman, for Parents, for the Dead, and for one's Friend
• fol. 107r — Prayers for the Deceased, Salvator Mundi, the Seven Verses of Saint Bernard, Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, Prayer to Christ on the Cross, Prayer for Communion, Prayers to the Virgin, Prayer of the Queen of Spain, Prayer for a Guardian Angel, and Blessings against a storm, for the King, for the grace of sinners, against the temptation of the flesh, for times of tribulation, for those who travel, for pregnant women, for diverse problems, and for the altar, Stabat Mater, and Suffrages, followed by Prayers in French to the Trinity, to the Virgin, to the Virgin after Easter, for Advent, and to the Holy Spirit
• fol. 131r — Suffrages for Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Sixtus IV, All Saints, and Saint Denis, in a different hand

Decorations

• fol. 17r — Miniature, Agony in the garden
• fol. 17r — Bar border with single foliate margin
• fol. 35r — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 35r — Full foliate border with bears and cat
• fol. 35r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 41v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 41v — Full foliate border with hedgehog, roosters, bird, and devil with shovel
• fol. 41v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 45r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 45r — Full foliate border with birds and moth
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 47v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 47v — Full foliate border with birds and drollery
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 50r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt with the fall of idols and the miracle in the cornfield
• fol. 50r — Full foliate border with birds and griffin
• fol. 50r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 52v — Large miniature, Death of the Virgin
• fol. 52v — Full foliate border with ferret and dog
• fol. 52v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 52v — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 56v — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 56v — Full foliate border with birds
• fol. 56v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 60r — Large miniature, Carrying the Cross
• fol. 60r — Full foliate border with birds
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 61r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 61v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 62r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 62v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 63r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 63v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 64r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 64r — Full foliate border with bird, dog, and drollery
• fol. 64r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 65v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 66v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 67r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 67v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 68r — Large miniature, David and Bathsheba
• fol. 68r — Full foliate border with birds and fox
• fol. 68r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 68r — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 80r — Large miniature, Burial Scene with Last Judgment
• fol. 80r — Full foliate border with birds and musical drolleries
• fol. 80r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 80r — Coat-of-arms
• fol. 115v — Small miniature, Pietà
• fol. 115v — Bar border with single foliate margin, with griffin
• fol. 117v — Small miniature, Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 117v — Bar border with single foliate margin, with drollery
• fol. 118r — Small miniature, Saint John the Evangelist
• fol. 118r — Bar border with single foliate margin, with bear
• fol. 125v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 126r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 127v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 133r — Notations in ink: "J de Charron de Liancourt chanione de L'Eglise Royalle de Saint Quentin en vermandois 1701"; "J.B Cartier [or Courtier?]... [effaced] 1789"
• fol. 133r — Print catalog entry