Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

12 vol. 1
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci-supplement: 12
• Call-Accession-number: Ms. 12 1229.D

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This small late-fifteenth-century Book of Hours, bound in two volumes at a much later date, displays the damage characteristic of parchment books that have been exposed to fire (the parchment is wrinkled and shrunk around the edges). This is the first volume, which contains a Calendar, the Gospel Lessons, the Obsecro te, and the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris.

Notes

• In two volumes
   
• Calendar is in French; some calendar leaves are misbound
   

Extent

Iii+71+iv; 110 x 76 mm bound to 121 x 81 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated after fol. 8

Collation

1 (12, +1 +4 +5 +8 +9 +12), 2 (8), 3 (9, +4), 4 (8), 5 (6), 6-8 (8), 9 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords visible: fols. 20v, 37v, 51v, 59v, 67v

Binding

Nineteenth-century half vellum with paper sides

Layout

One column of fourteen lines, ruled in lead; written area: 72 x 57 mm

Decoration

Four-line illuminated initials at some chapter divisions, small illuminated initials and line-endings throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Loganian Library (later the Library Company of Philadelphia)
   

Related resources

• Faye, C.U., continued and edited by W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 468, no. 12.

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• French
• Gothic
• Illumination
• France
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 12r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 18v — Prayer, Obsecro te
• fol. 24r — Hours of the Virgin, beginning and end lacking

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Loganian Library
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 43r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 48v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 55r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial C