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

Title

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Other related names

• Le Muet, Claude, former owner
• Richardson, Thomas F., 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 111
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1597388
• deRicci: 77

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 Rome was produced at the end of the fifteenth century, likely in Paris. It contains zodiacal vignettes and labors of the months in the calendar, which includes numerous Parisian saints highlighted with gold initials. Further vignette miniatures are found in the Gospel Lessons, O intemerata, and Obsecro te prayers. The remaining large miniatures for the Hours of the Virgin have been excised, except for the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 40r). The manuscript once included the Hours of the Holy Spirit, now entirely lacking. The Hours of the Cross, Penitential Psalms, and Office of the Dead are also lacking their miniature pages. The manuscript ends part-way through the Office of the Dead, and is therefore incomplete. The book was owned in the eighteenth century by a certain Claude Le Muet, treasurer of the church of Auxerre.

Notes

• A rubric on fol. 58v suggests that the Hours of the Holy Spirit were once included, but it is now missing
   
• Fol. 1 (ruled but left blank) has been tipped into the manuscript
   
• Numerous ornamental inscriptions are found on scrolls in the borders of the manuscript, some of which are readable: "O BEATE LUCA FAC NOS..." (fol. 9r); "MATEE APOSTOLI..." (fol. 10r); "CHORO ETERNALI" (fol. 10r); "O BEATE MARC..." (fol. 11v); "AB OMNIS..." (fol. 11v); "O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI AMEN" (fol. 12v); "MARIA MATER GRACIE MATER MISERI..." (fol. 12v); "FUIT HOMO MISUS ADEO CUI" (fol. 13v); "SALVE REGINA MIS..." (fol. 14r); "ORA NNA(?) FILIUS DAV..." (fol. 50r); "ORANPN FILIUS DAVIT MEME" (fol. 59v); "ESPOVER EN DIEU" (fol. 69r)
   

Extent

108; 185 x 125 mm bound to 200 x 137 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

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

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Partially cropped downward-facing vertical catchwords visible at folios: 23v and 88v

Binding

Sixteenth-century brown morocco over wooden boards; gilt stamped decoration on front and back cover; gilt edges; with brown slipcase stamped "BOUND BY H. ZUCKER PHILA."

Layout

One column of eighteen lines, ruled in red; written area: 100 x 68 mm

Decoration

One full-page miniature (for Terce of the Hours of the Virgin; remaining miniatures missing), marginal images; floral and inhabited borders throughout, some with devotional mottoes in banderoles; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Claude Le Muet (eighteenth century); Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; on fol. 2r in an eighteenth-century hand, "A Claude Le Muet Tresorier de l'église d'Auxerre."; on fol. 108r, a note explains the acquisition of the manuscript from his nephew, "His Liber iam nunc ad me pertinet per permutaois factam cum d[omi]no Claudio Richer nepoti cui dedi oies divi pauli Epistolas a d[omi]no Godian commentatatas cum paraphrasio in quin[us] voluminib[us]"; "John F. Lewis 1919" written in ink on fol. 1r next to the stamp of Thomas F. Richardson of Boston; hand written note in ink on the front pastedown has been trimmed but is still visible at the top pf the sheet; French note in ink on fol. 108r written in a nineteenth-century hand dates the manuscript to the thirteenth century; in pencil at the bottom of fol. 108r, a note in a 20th century hand "XV cent. 106 illuminated leaves 9212 pp.) 31 min."; a page of writing in English written in Lewis's hand describing the manuscript is tipped onto the back pastedown
   

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. 2038, no. 77.
• 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), pp. 122-123, no. 111.
• Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months & Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and The Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 58, 82, 103, 134, 153, 164, 190, 202, 177, 280.

Keywords

• 15th century
• French
• France
• Book of Hours
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Illumination
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Calendar, Paris use (in French)
• fol. 8r — Gospel lessons
• fol. 12v — Obsecro te
• fol. 15r — O Intemerata (end lacking)
• fol. 17r — Hours of the Virgin (the first page of each hour lacking, except for Terce; no miniature intended for Compline)
• fol. 57v — Hours of the Cross (first page lacking)
• fol. 59r — Penitential Psalms (first page lacking)
• fol. 74r — Office of the Dead (first page lacking; end from middle of Lauds lacking)

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Signature, John F. Lewis 1919
• fol. 1r — Owner's stamp, Thomas F. Richardson
• fol. 2r — Calendar vignette, Feasting
• fol. 2v — Calendar vignette, Pisces
• fol. 2v — Calendar vignette, Keeping Warm
• fol. 3r — Calendar vignette, Aries
• fol. 3r — Calendar vignette, Pruning Vines
• fol. 3v — Calendar vignette, Taurus
• fol. 3v — Calendar vignette, Hawking
• fol. 4r — Calendar vignette, Gemini
• fol. 4r — Calendar vignette, Horseback riding
• fol. 4v — Calendar vignette, Cancer
• fol. 4v — Calendar vignette, Carrying a lamb
• fol. 5r — Calendar vignette, Leo
• fol. 5r — Calendar vignette, Reaping
• fol. 5v — Calendar vignette, Virgo
• fol. 5v — Calendar vignette, Threshing
• fol. 6r — Calendar vignette, Libra
• fol. 6r — Calendar vignette, Sowing
• fol. 6v — Calendar vignette, Scorpio
• fol. 6v — Calendar vignette, Treading grapes
• fol. 7r — Calendar vignette, Sagittarius
• fol. 7r — Calendar vignette, Slaughtering a pig
• fol. 7v — Calendar vignette, Capricorn
• fol. 7v — Calendar vignette, Baking
• fol. 8r — Small miniature, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 8r — Four-sided foliate panel border with bird and grotesque
• fol. 9r — Vignette miniature, Saint Luke
• fol. 9r — Four-sided panel border
• fol. 10r — Vignette miniature, Saint Matthew
• fol. 10r — Four-sided panel border
• fol. 11v — Vignette miniature, Saint Mark
• fol. 11v — Four-sided panel border
• fol. 12v — Vignette miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 12v — Four-sided panel border with bird grotesque
• fol. 12v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 15r — Vignette miniature, Pietà
• fol. 15r — Four-sided panel border
• fol. 15r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 40r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 40r — Four-sided foliate panel border with bird and grotesque
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial D