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Title

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Other related names

• Master of Edward IV, active 1470-1490, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/95690260/#Master_of_Edward_IV,_active_1470-1490)
• Guyon de Sardiere, Jean-Baptiste Denis, 1674-1759, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/316665467)
• La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de, 1708-1780, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/41883842)
• Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/17337420)
• 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 108
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1457702
• deRicci: 85
• Leaves-of-gold: 35
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2948

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Bruges, Belgium

Summary

This Books of Hours for the Use of Rome was produced in Bruges in the late fifteenth century. It contains a calendar, in French, of the Use of Utrecht (fols. 1r-12v), followed by the Prayer to the Face of Christ (fols. 13r-14r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 15r-21v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit followed by the Gospel Lessons (fols. 23r-33v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 34r-84r), Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers (fols. 84v-90v), Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 92r-108v), Office of the Dead (fols. 110r-135v), and a final section composed of the Athanasian Creed, Veni creator, and other prayers to a Guardian Angel followed by Suffrages, the Seven Verses of Saint Bernard, and a final Suffrage to Saint Christopher (fols. 136r-152v). Four major textual sections are preceded by full-page miniatures attributed to the Master of Edward IV (active c. 1470-1490), each of which has a blank recto side: these represent the Pentecost (fol. 22v), the Annunciation (fol. 33v), King David in Prayer (fol. 91v), and the Three Living and the Three Dead (fol. 109v). The miniatures and the incipit pages of these sections, as well as the incipit pages on fols. 13r and 15r, are surrounded by full-page strewn-flower panel borders with gold wash backgrounds. The borders of the page opening for the Office of the Dead (fols. 109v-110r) are composed of dark grey backgrounds with skulls. A single small inset miniature illustrates the Suffrage to Saint John the Baptist (fol. 141v). This suffrage page, as well as the post-Matins divisions within the Hours of the Virgin, have matching strewn-flower border of the single-panel type. The book was in the Guyon de Sardière and La Vallière collections in the eighteenth century.

Notes

• Three front flyleaves, two paper followed by one parchment; end flyleaves, one parchment followed by two paper
   
• Calendar and rubrics in French
   
• The Suffrages include saints Adrien, Aubert, Erasme, and Piat
   
• "Guyon de Sardière" inscribed on ff. 1r and 152v; signature of Robert Hoe and notes by John F. Lewis on the front flyleaves
   

Extent

Iii+152+iii; 175 x 125 mm bound to 180 x 140 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (9, +9), 3 (8), 4 (9, +5), 5-10 (8), 11 (5, +5), 12 (7, +1), 13 (10), 14-18 (8), 19 (4)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century Dutch red morocco; gold-tooled boards and spine; silver pierced cut-work clasp; velvet bag preserved in modern clamshell box

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in red ink (extremely faint); written area: 95 x 65 mm

Decoration

Four full-page miniatures with elaborate borders, one quarter-page miniature, six decorated initials in full-page borders, seven decorated initials with vertical border bars

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Signature of Jean-Baptiste-Denis Guyon de Sardière, fols. 1r and 152v, eighteenth century; Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Denis Guyon, Paris, 1759, no. 34; Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, 1759; Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V , by Guillaume de Bure, Paris, 1767, vol. 1, no. 266; clipping from an auction catalogue thought to be Sotheby's pasted onto folio i verso, c. 1890; Robert Hoe, New York; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1912, IV, lot 2343; A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• Catalogue des livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Denis Guyon (Paris: Chez Barrois, libraire, quai des Augustins, 1759), no. 34.
• Catalogue des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de M.L.D.D.L.V (Paris: Chez Guillaume François de Bure le jeune, 1767), vol. 1, no. 266.
• Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York. Part IV: a to K: illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, historical bindings, early English literature, rare Americana, French illustrated books, eighteenth century English authors, autographs, manuscripts, and the library of bibliography in a separate alphabet: to be sold by auction beginning Monday, November 11, 1912 (Anderson Galleries: New York, 1912), lot 2343.
• The Grolier Club, New York, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and Painted Manuscripts Together with a Few Early printed books with Illuminations – Also Some Examples of Persian Manuscripts – with Plates in Facsimile and an Introductory Essay, exh. cat. (New York: The Grolier Club, 1892), p. 9, no. 21.
• 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. 85.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2948/)
• 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), p. 118-119, no. 108d, pl. 20.
• 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. 19, with illus. on facing page.
• Brinkmann, Bodo, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: Der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs un die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, Ars Nova: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination (Turnhout: Belgium: Brepols, 1997), pp. 338, 398, text fig. 88.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 111-112, no. 35.

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Belgium
• Flemish
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Illumination
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Signatures, John Frederick Lewis and Robert Hoe
• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 13r — Prayer to the Holy Face of Christ, "Salve Sancta facies"
• fol. 15r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 23r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 35r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 84v — Obsecro te and O intemerata
• fol. 92r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 110r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 136r — Athanasian Creed, Veni creator, and other prayers to a Guardian Angel followed by Suffrages, the Seven Verses of Saint Bernard, and a final Suffrage to Saint Christopher
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Signatures, John Frederick Lewis and Robert Hoe

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Robert Hoe
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Notations in pencil
• fol. 13r — Full strewn-flower panel border with bird and moth
• fol. 13r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 15r — Full strewn-flower panel border with bird and flies
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 22v — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 22v — Full strewn-flower panel border with fly
• fol. 23r — Full strewn-flower panel border with fly
• fol. 23r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 28r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 34v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 34v — Full strewn-flower panel border with bird, flies, and moth
• fol. 35r — Full strewn-flower panel border with bird and flies
• fol. 35r — Decorated initial D, with moth
• fol. 44v — Strewn-flower panel border with flies
• fol. 44v — Decorated initial D, with fly
• fol. 55r — Strewn-flower panel border
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 59v — Strewn-flower panel border with flies
• fol. 59v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 63v — Strewn-flower panel border
• fol. 63v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 67v — Strewn-flower panel border
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 71v — Strewn-flower panel border
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 79r — Strewn-flower panel border with flies
• fol. 79r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 91v — Full-page miniature, King David in Prayer
• fol. 91v — Full strewn-flower panel border with snail and flies
• fol. 92r — Full strewn-flower panel border with fly
• fol. 92r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 109v — Full page miniature, Three Living and three Dead
• fol. 109v — Full strewn-flower panel border on dark grey background, with skulls, fly, and "Memento Mori" banderoles
• fol. 110r — Full strewn-flower panel border on dark grey background, with skulls, moth, and "Memento Mori" banderoles
• fol. 110r — Inhabited initial D, with skull
• fol. 136r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 141v — Small miniature, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 141v — Strewn-flower panel border with fly
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Notations in pencil