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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Châlons

Other related names

• Wright, Harrison, 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 89
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560748
• deRicci: 74

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Châlons, France
Mons?, Belgium

Summary

This well-used Book of Hours of circa 1400, previously catalogued as being of the Use of Châlons in the Champagne region, is more likely identifiable as being produced in the diocese of Mons, as its litany includes saints Ghislain (fol. 94v), and Waltrudis, (fol. 95v). The book was owned in the 17th century by the Jesuit College at Louvain, bolstering the Wallonian provenance. The book lacks a calendar but appears to be otherwise intact. There are French prayers added in another hand on folios 144r-160v.

Notes

• On the lower margin of fol. 1r is the seventeenth-century ownership inscription of the Jesuit College at Louvain, "Collegii Soctis Jesu Lov. M.B."; written in pencil on fol. 166r: "6/11/1908"; printed catalog entry pasted onto fol. 166r; parchment is stiff and discolored
   
• Prayers on fols. 144r-160v are in French
   

Extent

I+166+i; 135 x 92 mm bound to 150 x 108 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-12 (8), 13 (8, -8), 14-19 (8), 20 (9, +9), 21 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasp visible on top cover; rebacked; stamped in gold on spine: "LATIN BREVIARY MS. XV. CENTURY"

Layout

One column of thirteen lines; frame-ruled in faint brown ink (text often crosses over right-hand margin); some prickings are visible on outer edges of pages (the fore-edge); written area: 80 x 55 mm

Decoration

Four four-line illuminated initials with floral spray extensions; one five-line red and blue initial; seven four-line red and blue initials; alternating red and blue one- or two-line initials throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Jesuit College at Louvain (17th century); Collection of Harrison Wright, of Wilkes-Barre (sold Philadelphia, 11 June 1908, no. 240, as "Breviary"; written in pencil on fol. 166r: "6/11/1908," printed catalog entry pasted onto fol. 166r.); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936"
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 14th century
• 15th century
• France
• Belgium
• Illumination
• Private devotional text
• Devotion
• Liturgy

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Châlons or Mons
• fol. 74r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 104r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 144r — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (in French)
• fol. 152r — Seven Requests to Our Lord (in French)
• fol. 156r — Hours of the Cross (in French)
• fol. 160v — Athanasian Creed (in French)

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 17r — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 33r — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 40v — Five line decorated initial D
• fol. 46r — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 51v — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 57r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 67r — Four line decorated initial C
• fol. 74r — Four line illuminated initial, D
• fol. 104r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 144r — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 156r — Four line decorated initial I