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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Soissons?

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Labitte, Alphonse, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/31986060)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 127
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1606324
• deRicci: 91

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

i+97+i

Notes

• On fol. 1r vellum has been reused or once faced a page of text that has left a transfer impression; writing too faint to read
   

Extent

I+97+i; 120 x 81 mm bound to 127 x 87 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper-right hand corner

Collation

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

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular catchwords, bottom center, at: fols. 8v, 16v, 24v, 31v, 36v, 44v, 54v, 62v, 68v, 76v, 84v, 93v

Binding

Nineteenth-century, black morocco, blind tooled, gilt edges, ORAISONS stamped in gold on spine

Layout

One column of fourteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 49 x 39 mm

Decoration

Five foliate borders (fols. 11v, 24v, 37r, 42r, 45v), illuminated one-to-four-line initials and line endings throughout; decoration program appears to be incomplete: some large spaces probably left for miniatures; numerous spaces left for illuminated initials

Script

Bâtarde

Two scribes; scribe one responsible for all but fols. 1r-1v, 22r-23v, and 93r-97v

Provenance

• Alphonse Labitte (modern bookplate on inside front cover); W.C. Crane sale by Anderson (New York, 9 Dec. 1912, no. 392); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

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. 2040, no. 91.
• 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. 142, no. 127.

Keywords

• 16th century
• 15th century
• Book of Hours
• France
• French
• Christian
• Missing leaves
• Illumination
• Private devotional text
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Soissons
• fol. 45v — Obsecro te
• fol. 48r — Prayer to Saint Sebastian
• fol. 49r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (end lacking)
• fol. 66v — Office of the Dead (beginning lacking)
• fol. 97v — Prayer to the Virgin Mary, in French

Decorations

• fol. 11v — Foliate border
• fol. 11v — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 24v — Foliate border
• fol. 24v — Five line decorated initial D
• fol. 37r — Foliate border
• fol. 37r — Five line decorated initial D
• fol. 42r — Foliate border
• fol. 42r — Four line decorated initial C
• fol. 45v — Foliate border
• fol. 45v — Four line decorated initial O