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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Other related names

• Du Pré, Jacqueline, former owner
• Trapnell, Alfred, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb98061048.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 123
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560476
• deRicci: 72

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); French

Origin

Place

Rouen, France

Summary

This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century illuminated book of hours, probably produced in Rouen. It is written in bâtarde and decorated with large miniatures with three-quarter borders at the hour divisions, including one with a generic female owner portrait (fol. 87r). Two full-page miniatures of the temptation of Adam and Eve and the Annunciation are by a different artist (fols. 22v-23r). Beginning with a French calendar and concluding with French prayers, it also has a French hymn and table of contents added to the end of the volume later, probably in the eighteenth century.

Notes

• Latin with calendar and prayers in French
   
• One leaf missing between fols. 58 and 59, based on gap in earlier pagination; missing page would have been the beginning of the Penitential Psalms
   

Extent

Ii+95+ii; 171 x 120 mm bound to 180 x 123 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right-hand corner and bottom right-hand corner; earlier pagination in pen, upper outer corners, which corresponds with the table of contents on fol. 95v, skipping fols. 21v-22r and now missing the pagination on the leaf that formerly followed fol. 58; references in this record are to modern foliation

Collation

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

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary brown calf; gilt tooled decoration; IACQVELINE stamped in gold on upper cover, DV PRE on lower cover; rebacked

Layout

One column of twenty-three lines, with an outer column for the floral border, the same height as the written area; ruled in red ink; written area: 104 x 63 mm

Decoration

Two full-page miniatures (on facing pages); twelve three-quarter-page miniatures; floral borders on outer vertical margins, illuminated initials, and line-fillers throughout

Script

Bâtarde with eighteenth-century additions (fols. 94v-95v)

Provenance

• Jacqueline Du Pré (late fifteenth-early sixteenth century); Alfred Trapnell, sold 1910; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; the name "IACQVELINE" stamped on the upper cover and "DV PRE" on the lower; bookplate of Alfred Trapnell on inside front cover; bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on first flyleaf; printed entry from Henry Young and Sons' catalog pasted onto the inside of the back cover
   

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. 72.
• 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. 136-137, no. 123.

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 13r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 16v — Prayer, Obsecro te
• fol. 18v — Prayer, O intemerata
• fol. 23v — Hours of the Virgin, through Lauds
• fol. 35v — Suffrages
• fol. 39r — Hours of the Virgin from Prime
• fol. 54r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 56v — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 59r — Penitential Psalms and Litany
• fol. 69r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 87r — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 91r — Seven Requests to Our Lord, in French
• fol. 94v — Hymn, in French
• fol. 95r — Prayer, in French
• fol. 95v — Table of contents, in French

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate
• fol. 13r — Large miniature, Evangelist portrait, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 22v — Full-page miniature, Adam and Eve tempted by the serpent
• fol. 23r — Full-page miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 29v — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 39r — Large miniature, Nativity-Adoration
• fol. 42v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 45r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 47r — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 49r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 51r — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 54r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 56v — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 69r — Large miniature, Funeral/Skeleton
• fol. 87r — Large miniature, Female patron kneeling before standing Virgin and Child
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate
• Inside back cover — Printed Henry Young and Sons' catalog entry