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

Title

Gospel lectionary

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Falloize, Jean de, 16th century, former owner
• Kloster Kuringen, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/239654337)
• Renesse-Breidbach, Clément Wenceslas de 1776-1833, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/44645423)
• Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner (http://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 160
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1610431
• deRicci: 35

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Liège, Belgium

Summary

This large manuscript is a Gospel lectionary, a compilation of the Gospel readings for the mass throughout the year and for special occasions. The readings for the Temporale (Advent through the Sundays after Pentecost) are followed by the readings for the Sanctorale, including the feasts of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Benedict, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Lambert, patron saint of Liège. At the end of the volume are the Gospel readings for masses for particular purposes, such as for the dedication of a church, for peace, for the sick, or for the dead, and an alphabetical index of incipits with folio numbers. The manuscript was commissioned, circa 1525, by Jean de Falloize of Liège. It is written on parchment in two columns of textualis quadrata and illustrated with six large illuminations with full borders and sixteen single-column miniatures. A bifolium with the coats of arms of Jean de Falloize and the Krickenbeek family of Coninxheim (fols. 1v-2r) was added to the front of the volume later in the sixteenth century, when a descendant of those families entered the Cistercian convent of Kuringen at Herkenrode.

Notes

• Some discoloration and moisture damage to top edges of fols. 75r-77r. A piece of the vellum endpaper has been cut away
   

Extent

192+i; 345 x 240 mm bound to 360 x 255 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, 1-192, upper right recto; folios 3-192 have original foliation in roman numerals in ink, i-cxc, upper right recto; references in this record are to modern foliation

Collation

1 (2), 2-24 (8), 25 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century black morocco, gilt back and edges, textblock encased in orphan binding

Layout

Two columns of twenty-four lines of text; vertical bounding lines in red ink, horizontal ruling in lead; written area: 240 x 145 mm

Decoration

Two full-page coats of arms (fols. 1v-2r); six half-page miniatures with full, inhabited borders (Nativity, fol. 9r; Resurrection, fol. 91v; Pentecost, fol. 105r; Veneration of the Sacrament, fol. 110v; Assumption of the Virgin, fol. 164r; All Saints, fol. 174v); sixteen single-column miniatures with borders (John the Baptist, fol. 3r; Circumcision, fol. 10v; Adoration of the Magi, fol. 11r; Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, fol. 57r; Ascension, fol. 102v; Saint Stephen, fol. 131r; Purification, fol. 138r; Annunciation, fol. 141r; Saint George, fol. 142v; John the Baptist, fol. 153v; Saints Peter and Paul, fol. 155r; Visitation, fol. 156r; Infant Christ blessing St. Bernard of Clairvaux, fol. 165v; Nativity of Mary, fol. 167v; Joachim and Anna, fol. 177v; Dedication of a Church, fol. 179r); seventeen decorated initials; decorated initials in gold, paint, and ink follow most of the twenty-two miniatures (six half-page, sixteen column); rubrics and running heads are in red are marked with blue paraphs; capital I initials beginning each pericope alternate blue and red, with red marks distinguishing verses within the text block

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Provenance

• Jean de Falloize of Liège, ca. 1525 (coat of arms, fol. 1v); Krickenbeek family of Coninxheim (coat of arms, fol. 2r); gift to the Abbaye des Dames Nobles at Herkenrode near Hasselt, province of Liège, on the entrance of Catherine, daughter of descendants of Jean de Falloize and the Krickenbeek family, into the convent in the mid-sixteenth century; Comte Clement-Wenceslas de Renesse-Briedbach (bookplate, Ex bibliotheca Renessiana, no. 16), sold Antwerp, October 1, 1835, no. 16; Robert Hoe (bookplate, inside front cover), sold Anderson Auction Co., New York, January 15, 1912, to Rosenbach (note in pencil inside front cover, "Sale Robert Hoe New York 1912 No. 2450 $290"); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate, front flyleaf); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; in pencil inside front cover, "Exhibited at Grolier Club April 1892. No. 62 of the Published Catalogue"; in pencil inside back cover, "192" and "523," erased
   

Related resources

• Grolier Club, 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 (New York: The Grolier Club, 1892), p. 27, no. 62.
• Hoe, Robert, A Catalogue of Manuscripts Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe (New York, 1909), pp. 17-18.
• Anderson Auction Company, A Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York (New York: Anderson Auction Company, 1912), p. 378, no. 2450.
• 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. 2031, no. 35.
• 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. 174-5, no. 160.
• Forgeur, Richard, "Note sur deux manuscrits Cistercians du diocèse de Liège datant du XVI siècle," Scriptorium XL/1 (1986): pp. 100-107.

Keywords

• Gospel Lectionary
• 16th century
• Illumination
• Belgium
• Liturgy
• Heraldry

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Evangelia per annum de tempore (first Sunday of Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost)
• fol. 131r — Evangelia de sanctis (Saint Stephen through Saint Thomas the Apostle)
• fol. 178v — In nova dedicatione templi post benedictionem altaris
• fol. 179r — In anniversaria templi dedicatione evangelium
• fol. 180r — Evangelia in missis peculiaribus
• fol. 186r — Index omnium evangeliorum

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Ex libris Robert Hoe
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Ex bibliotheca Renessiana
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 1r — Print catalog entry
• fol. 1v — Coat of arms, Jean de Falloize
• fol. 2r — Coat of arms, Krickenbeek family
• fol. 3r — Small miniature, John the Baptist
• fol. 3r — Illuminated letter I
• fol. 9r — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 10v — Small miniature, Circumcision
• fol. 11r — Small miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 57r — Small miniature, Christ's entry into Jerusalem
• fol. 91v — Large miniature, Resurrection
• fol. 91v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 102v — Small miniature, Ascension
• fol. 105r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 105v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 110r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 110v — Large miniature, Veneration of the Sacrament
• fol. 131r — Small miniature, Saint Stephen
• fol. 138r — Small miniature, Purification
• fol. 138r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 141r — Small miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 142v — Small miniature, Saint George
• fol. 142v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 153v — Small miniature, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 153v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 155r — Small miniature, Saints Peter and Paul
• fol. 155r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 156r — Small miniature, Visitation
• fol. 156r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 164r — Large miniature, Assumption
• fol. 164v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 165v — Small miniature, Infant Christ blessing Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
• fol. 165v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 167v — Small miniature, Nativity of Mary
• fol. 167v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 174v — Large miniature, Jesus, God the Father, the Virgin Mary, and all saints
• fol. 175r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 177v — Small miniature, Joachim and Anna
• fol. 179r — Small miniature, Bishop at altar with thurifer
• fol. 179r — Illuminated initial I