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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Other related names

• 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 93
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1559286
• deRicci: 63

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Brittany?, France

Summary

This Book of Hours of the Use of Paris was perhaps produced in Brittany, as the style of the fourteen large miniatures and contents of the calendar and litany suggest. The miniatures in the Hours of the Virgin for Sext, (Flight into Egypt, fol. 80v), None (Adoration of the Magi, fol. 85v), and Vespers (Presentation in the Temple, fol. 90v) diverge from the traditional iconographic sequence. Several of the foliate borders surrounding the miniatures contain Greek-inspired pseudo script.

Notes

• Some gold has flaked and silver paint has oxidized on fols. 19r, 57r, 98r, 105r; some of the blue rubrics throughout are now faint; paint has been worn/flaked on fol. 69r, rendering the faces in the miniature blank
   
• Some of the miniature appear to have been retouched
   
• Inscriptions in miniatures: fol. 19r: illegible inscriptions on intertwined gold and silver vine scrolls in right margin; fol. 45r: illegible inscriptions on the Angel Gabriel's scroll, and on open book in front of the Virgin Mary; in the lower margin is the inscription: "Qui bien en ionesse naprent en sa veillesse sen repant"; fol. 57r: illegible inscriptions written on gold and silver scrolls in lower margin; fol. 75v: the angel in heaven holds a scroll that reads: "Gloria in excelsis deo"; fol. 98r: illegible inscriptions (pseudo-Greek letters?) on gold and silver scrolls in margins; fol. 105r: illegible inscriptions on gold scrolls in right margin
   
• Incipit text at the beginning of each major textual division is gilded
   
• Calendar and prayers on fols. 19r-24v and 25r-28v in French
   

Extent

V+199+v; 185 x 130 mm bound to 197 x 143 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (6), 3-4 (8), 5-6 (4), 7-14 (8), 15 (4), 16-17 (8), 18 (8, -8), 19-20 (8), 21 (4), 22-25 (8), 26 (6), 27 (8), 28 (6, +1 +2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower right margin at: 52v, 60v, 68v, 76v, 84v, 92v, 100v, 155v, 163v, 171v, 179v, 185v, 193v

Binding

French red morocco, triple gilt fillets around sides and gilt frames in centers with floral ornaments at the corners, elaborately floral gilt back, gilt edges, seventeenth century

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 99 x 61 mm

Decoration

Fourteen three-quarter-page miniatures surrounded by full foliate border; half-page floral borders in calendar and on pages where textual divisions occur; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Unidentified coat of arms of the original owner in the lower margin of fol. 80v, three doves proper on a field of gules; Bull and Auvache, London, ₤30 (as per inscription in J.F. Lewis' hand on one of the back flyleaves); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (bookplate); 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. 2035, no. 63.
• 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. 102-103, plate XVI, no. 93.

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 13r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 19r — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 25r — Seven Requests to our Lord, in French
• fol. 29r — Obsecro te
• fol. 33r — O intemerata, followed by suffrages
• fol. 45r — Hours of the Virgin, Paris use
• fol. 105r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 128r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 134r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 148r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Inside front cover — 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
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 6r — Panel border
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 7r — Panel border
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 8r — Panel border
• fol. 9r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 9r — Panel border
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 10r — Panel border
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 11r — Panel border
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 12r — Panel border
• fol. 19r — Large miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 19r — Full foliate border
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 25r — Miniature, Trinity as Throne of Mercy
• fol. 25r — Full foliate border
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 33r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 45r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 45r — Full foliate border with inscribed scrolls and peacock
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 57r — Large miniature, Visitation, with Elizabeth mistakenly painted a man
• fol. 57r — Full foliate border with inscribed scrolls
• fol. 57r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 69r — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 69r — Full foliate border
• fol. 69r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 75v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 75v — Full foliate border with archer and birds
• fol. 75v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 76r — Two-sided foliate border
• fol. 80v — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 80v — Full foliate border with coat-of-arms
• fol. 80v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 85v — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 85v — Full foliate border with drollery and birds
• fol. 85v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 90v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 90v — Full foliate border with fountain
• fol. 90v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 98r — Large miniature, The Virgin received into Heaven
• fol. 98r — Full foliate border with inscribed scrolls
• fol. 98r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 105r — Large miniature, King David in Prayer
• fol. 105r — Full foliate border with inscribed scroll, drollery and drummer
• fol. 105r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 128r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 128r — Full foliate border with lion and cat
• fol. 128r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 134r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 134r — Full foliate border with fish, insects, and birds
• fol. 134r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 148r — Large miniature, Job Suffering in Flames visited by Satan
• fol. 148r — Full foliate border with bird
• fol. 148r — Illuminated initial D