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

Title

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Other related names

• Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92040086.html)
• 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 92
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1559285
• deRicci: 69
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2939

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France
Flanders?

Summary

This mid-fifteenth-century Book of Hours of the Use of Paris contains a calendar with numerous saints venerated in the region of Laon and Soissons. The Gospel Lessons are followed by the Obsecro te, O intemerata, and Salve regina misericordia prayers. The manuscript contains eleven half-page miniatures at the usual textual divisions, though it is lacking the miniature at the beginning of Matins for the Hours of the Virgin. The Hours of the Virgin is followed by the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and prayers, the Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, and Office of the Dead. There are no suffrages. The border surrounding the Crucifixion (fol. 84r) contains two unidentified coats-of-arms which may indicate the original owner. The miniatures appear to have been retouched by a skillful modern artist, though the coats-of-arms appear to be unaltered, or at least in their original position.

Notes

• Occasional water stains and bleeding through of red ink
   
• First page of the Hours of the Virgin lacking (between fols. 23 and 24)
   
• Calendar includes saints venerated in the diocese of Laon and Soissons: Saint Amand (6 February, fol. 2r); Saint Medard (8 June, fol. 6r); Saint Crispin (25 October, fol 10v); and Saint Nicaise (14 December, fol. 12r)
   
• Faint early ownership inscriptions on fols. 56v and 116v
   
• Calendar and rubrics before each section in French
   
• Inscription in miniature on fol. 52r: angel holds scroll that reads: "Deus omnipotens meus Amen"
   
• Some miniatures likely retouched
   

Extent

I+116+i; 187 x 135 mm bound to 194 x 142 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto or lower right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (8), 3 (10), 4-6 (8), 7 (8, -3), 8 (8, -8), 9-14 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in bottom right corner (many very faded) at folios: 20v, 30v, 38v, 46v, 54v, 61v, 76v, 84v, 92v, 100v, and 108v

Binding

Early twentieth century brown calf, blind stamped; with brown slipcase stamped "BOUND BY HYMAN ZUCKER"

Layout

One column of nineteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 94 x 69 mm

Decoration

Eleven half-page miniatures: Visitation (fol. 40r), Nativity, Adoration type (fol. 48r), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 52r), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 55r), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 57r), Flight into Egypt (fol. 60r), Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 65r), David before Christ as Judge (fol. 69r), Crucifixion (fol. 84r), Pentecost (fol. 87r), Burial of the Dead (fol. 90v); floral and inhabited borders throughout, illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Robert Heysham Sayre, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (bookplate on inside cover, dated 1900), sold in Philadelphia, 28 January 1908; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate on recto of first flyleaf); 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. 2036, no. 69.
• 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. 100-101, no. 92.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2939/)

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French, use of Noyon
• fol. 13r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 18r — Prayers to the Virgin: Obsecro te, O intemerata, and Salve regina misericordia
• fol. 24r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris (first page lacking)
• fol. 69r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 84r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 87r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 90v — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Robert Heysham Sayre
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 1r — Panel border
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 2r — Panel border
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 3r — Panel border
• fol. 4r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 4r — Panel border
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 5r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 6r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 7r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 8r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 9r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 9r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 10r — Panel border
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 11r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 12r — Illumibated initials KL
• fol. 12r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 13r — Four-sided panel border with peacock and heart motif
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 14r — Three-sided panel border with peacock
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial J
• fol. 15r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 18r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 18r — Panel border with brown bird
• fol. 20v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 20v — Panel border
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 23r — Panel border
• fol. 28r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 28v — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 30v — Panel border with bird and dragonfly
• fol. 32r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 35v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 36v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 40r — Half-page miniature, Visitation
• fol. 40r — Foliate border
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 43v — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 48r — Half-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 48r — Foliate border
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 52r — Half-page miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 52r — Foliate border
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 55r — Half-page miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 55r — Foliate border
• fol. 55r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 57r — Half-page miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 57r — Foliate border
• fol. 57r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 60r — Half-page miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 60r — Foliate border
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 65r — Half-page miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 65r — Foliate border
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 68r — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 68v — Panel border with peacock
• fol. 69r — Half-page miniature, David before Christ as Judge
• fol. 69r — Foliate border
• fol. 69r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 70r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 72v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 73v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 75v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 77v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 82r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 82v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 84r — Half-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 84r — Foliate border
• fol. 84r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 84r — Two unidentified coats-of-arms
• fol. 84v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 87r — Half-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 87r — Foliate border
• fol. 87r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 90v — Half-page miniature, Burial of the Dead
• fol. 90v — Foliate border
• fol. 90v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 93v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 96r — Panel border with bird
• fol. 100v — Panel border with bird
• fol. 104v — Panel border with bird
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis