Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of hours, Use of Paris

Other related names

• Stewart, Alexander Bannatyne, former owner
• Maggs Bros., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82075696.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 98
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1597386#
• deRicci: 73

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Book of Hours, following the use of Paris.

Notes

• Faint traces of potential catchword, lower right-hand corner of fol. 78v
   

Extent

Ii+133+ii; 174 x 120 mm bound to 182 x 128 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right-hand corner

Collation

1 (6, +1 +6), 2 (7, +1), 3-7 (8), 8 (9, +9), 9-15 (8), 16 (7, +1), 17 (8, +1 +2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Occasional catchwords written vertically, lower right-hand corner of verso: fol. 29v, fol. 94v, fol. 102v

Binding

Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco with gilt decorations; gilt edges and marbled paper pastedowns

Layout

One column of seventeen lines, lead point ruling; written area: 107 x 74 mm

Decoration

Illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; eight full-page miniatures with foliate borders: fol. 14r –John on Patmos, fol. 23r – Annunciation, fol. 63r – Crucifixion, fol. 66v – Pentecost, fol. 69v – David and Bathsheba, fol. 85r – Death and a king, an emperor and a bishop, fol. 120r – Virgin and Child, fol. 125r – Trinity

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Alexander Bannatyne Stewart; Maggs Brothers (bookseller); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplates of Alexander Bannatyne Stewart and John Frederick Lewis on inside front cover and recto of first flyleaf, respectively; remains of a bookseller's (?) sticker on inside front cover; hand written notes in pencil written on verso of flyleaf: "Horae B.V.M. saec. XV M.S. by a French scribe with 8 large illuminated paintings besides initials, illuminated borders, etc."
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Christian
• French
• Illustration
• France
• Devotion
• Liturgy
• Illumination
• Miniature

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Calendar, Paris use (in French)
• fol. 14r — Gospel lessons
• fol. 19v — Obsecro te
• fol. 23r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 63r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 66v — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 68v — Penitential Psalms
• fol. 80v — Litany
• fol. 85r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 120r — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (in French)
• fol. 125r — Seven Requests to our Lord (in French)
• fol. 128r — Suffrages

Decorations

• fol. 14r — Large miniature, John on Patmos
• fol. 19v — Very large illuminated initial O
• fol. 23r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 58v — Very large illuminated initial C
• fol. 63r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 66v — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 69v — Large miniature, David and Bathsheba
• fol. 85r — Large miniature, Death and a king, an emperor and a bishop
• fol. 120r — Large miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 125r — Large miniature, Trinity
• fol. 128r — Very large illuminated initial M
• fol. 128v — Very large illuminated initial L
• fol. 129r — Very large illuminated initial L
• fol. 129v — Very large illuminated initial B
• fol. 130r — Very large illuminated initial U
• fol. 130v — Very large illuminated initial O
• fol. 131r — Very large illuminated initial O
• fol. 131v — Very large illuminated initial U
• fol. 132r — Very large illuminated initial S
• fol. 132v — Very large illuminated initial O