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Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Moyreau, J. D., former owner
• Gilbert, W. J., former owner
• 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 107
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 84
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2947

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This Book of Hours was produced in Flanders in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. It contains a calendar (fols. 5r-16v), followed by the Gospel Lessons for John, Luke, and Matthew and the Passion narrative according to John (fols. 17r-38v), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 39r-93v, missing the first page and miniature for Vespers between fols. 80 and 81), the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit, intercalated, followed by Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 94r-132r), and Vespers for the Office of the Dead (fols. 132v-139r). The book contains fourteen large miniatures accompanied by illusionistic scrolls for the text below, representing the Annunciation (fol. 39r), Nativity (fol. 63r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 68r), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 73r), Presentation in the Temple/Circumcision (fol. 77r), Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 89r), Christ before Annas (fol. 94r), Christ before Caiaphas (fol. 95v), Pilate washing his hands (fol. 98r), Christ crowned with Thorns (fol. 100v), the Carrying of the Cross (fol. 104v), Crucifixion (fol. 105v), and Resurrection (fol. 108r). Additionally, the book contains seven smaller miniatures inset into the text, representing Saint John on Patmos (fol. 17r), the Visitation (fol. 50v), Caiaphas sending Christ to Pilate (fol. 96v), the Flagellation (fol. 99r), the Man of Sorrows (fol. 101v), Deposition (fol. 107v), and King David in Prayer (fol. 110r), 132v - Job in prayer. Unusually, the miniature for Nones of the Hours of the Virgin represents the Circumcision (fol. 77r), while the intercalated Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit contain a complete cycle of miniatures representing the Passion.

Notes

• Modern paper flyleaves
   
• Marbled endpapers
   
• Short instructions to illuminator visible next to some miniatures
   
• First page for Vespers with miniature lacking between fols. 80 and 81
   

Extent

V+141+vi; 162 x 100 mm bound to 165 x 108 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4), 2 (8), 3 (4), 4-5 (8), 6 (6), 7-9 (8), 10 (4), 11 (5, +1), 12 (7, +1), 13 (8, -3), 14 (6), 15 (2), 16 (6), 17-21 (8)

Signatures

Alphanumeric signatures for first half of each gathering, A through P, lower right recto; X marks on first leaf of second half of gathering, lower right recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords, lower right verso, partially cropped, visible at fols. 54v, 71v, 85v, 91v, 99v, 115v, 123v, and 131v

Binding

Early-twentieth-century blue morocco, gilt stamped decoration, marbled paper pastedowns, bound by H. Zucker of Philadelphia; stamped on spine in gold: "HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS, LATIN MS, XV. CENTURY"

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, ruled in lead; written area: 104 x 61 mm

Decoration

Seventeen large miniatures, with frames and illusionistic text scrolls; four small miniatures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Dr. J. D. Moyreau (eighteenth century?); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale, Stan V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909, lot 245 (purchased by John Frederick Lewis for $140, as per inscription on fol. 3r); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• A superb collection of illuminated vellum manuscripts and works on the art of illuminating, Stan V. Henkels, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909, p. 2, lot 245.
• 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. 2039, no. 84.
• 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 Free Library, 1937), p. 117, no. 107.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2947/)

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 16th century
• Flanders
• Illumination
• Dutch
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ownership note, J. D. Moyreau
• fol. 2r — Verse inscriptions, eighteenth century
• fol. 2v — Catalog clipping and typewritten inscription
• fol. 3r — Ownership notes in pencil, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 5r — Calendar
• fol. 17r — Gospel Lessons from John, Luke, and Matthew followed by Passion according to John
• fol. 39r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome (first page and miniature of Vespers missing)
• fol. 94r — Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit, intercalated, followed by Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 132v — Office of the Dead (Vespers only)
• fol. 140r — Inscription, in French, "Air lugubre sur le subjet du tableau qui est dans la chapelle de la conciergerie d'Issoudun," eighteenth century
• fol. 141r — Latin inscription, eighteenth century

Decorations

• fol. 17r — Small miniature, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 17r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 39r — Large miniature, Annunciation, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 50v — Small miniature, Visitation
• fol. 63r — Large miniature, Nativity, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 68r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 73r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 77r — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple/Circumcision, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 89r — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 94r — Large miniature, Christ before Annas, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 95v — Large miniature, Christ before Caiaphas, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 96v — Small miniature, Caiaphas sending Christ to Pilate
• fol. 98r — Large miniature, Pilate washing his hands, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 99r — Small miniature, Flagellation
• fol. 100v — Large miniature, Christ crowned with Thorns, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 101v — Small miniature, Man of Sorrows
• fol. 103v — Large miniature, Carrying of the Cross, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 105v — Large miniature, Crucifixion, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 107r — Small miniature, Deposition
• fol. 108r — Large miniature, Resurrection, with illusionistic text scroll
• fol. 110r — Small miniature, King David in Prayer
• fol. 132v — Large miniature, Job mocked by his Friends, with illusionistic text scroll