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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Vrelant, Guillaume, -1481, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/95823026/)
• Gilbert, W. J., former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/49174603)
• 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 101
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1599786
• deRicci: 70

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Rome produced in Flanders in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. It contains twenty three-to-seven-line historiated initials and three full-page miniatures by a follower of William Vrelant, one of which is an unusual depiction of the heraldic Arma Christi supported by Christ and the Virgin Mary (fol. 92r). The rubrics on fols. 80v, 150r-151r, and 154r are in Dutch.

Notes

• Rubrics on fols. 80v, 150r-151r, and 154r are in Dutch; first three and final three flyleaves are modern paper; remainder are parchment
   

Extent

Vii+165+vii; 163 x 110 mm bound to 172 x 127 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; the three tipped-in miniatures have additional lower right recto foliation in pencil

Collation

1-3 (6), 4 (9, +3), 5-9 (8), 10 (9, +9), 11 (8), 12 (9, +8), 13-21 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early-nineteenth-century French black calf; elaborately gold-tooled decoration on front and back covers, spine, and inside covers; red satin doublures; gilt and gauffered edges; metal clasp; stamped in gold on spine: "HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS" and "1430"

Layout

One column of eighteen lines; ruled in purple ink; written area: 107 x 72 mm

Decoration

Three full-page miniatures; twenty historiated initials; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Gilbert sale, Philadelphia, 7 June 1909; Given by John Frederick Lewis's widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Flanders
• Flemish
• Christian
• Miniature
• Historiated initial
• Private devotional text
• Devotion
• Liturgy
• Illustration

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 101: Book of Hours, Use of Rome are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 101: Book of Hours, Use of Rome. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 7r — Passion according to John
• fol. 16v — Gospel Lesson of John
• fol. 18r — Prayer, Illumina oculos meos
• fol. 19r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 73r — Prayer, Salve Regina
• fol. 74r — Prayer, O domina glorie
• fol. 75r — Prayer, Gaude virgo mater
• fol. 77r — Prayer, Obsecro te
• fol. 80v — Prayers to the Virgin, beginning with Virgo templum trinitatis (rubric in Dutch)
• fol. 86r — Prayer to the Virgin, O sanctissima, o dulcissima
• fol. 88r — Prayers to female Saints: Katherine, Margaret, and Barbara
• fol. 93r — Prayer to Apollonia
• fol. 94r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 113v — The Fifteen Psalms (Gradual Psalms, 119-133)
• fol. 121v — Prayers beginning with Domine sancte pater
• fol. 132v — Prayer, Domine ihesu christe filii dei vivi redemptor mundi
• fol. 135v — Prayers to the Lord for the Parts of the Body
• fol. 138r — Prayer for the Elevation of the Host
• fol. 140r — Prayer of Pope Innocent
• fol. 140r — Prayer, Deus propicius esto
• fol. 142r — Prayers, beginning with O bone Ihesu
• fol. 147v — Prayer to the Virgin Mary
• fol. 150r — Legend of the 10,000 martyrs (rubrics in Dutch)
• fol. 154v — Suffrages (first rubric in Dutch)

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 2v — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 3v — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 4r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 5v — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 6v — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 7r — Large illuminated initial I
• fol. 15v — Two line illuminated initial P
• fol. 16v — Foliate panel border
• fol. 16v — Large illuminated initial I
• fol. 18r — Large illuminated initial I
• fol. 18v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 19r — Historiated Initial D, Annunciation
• fol. 19r — Marginal scene, Archer
• fol. 19r — Foliate panel border
• fol. 19r — Large illuminated initial D
• fol. 19r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 19v — Two line illuminated initial U
• fol. 20v — Two line illuminated initial Q
• fol. 21r — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints Catherine, Mary Magdalene, Justina, and Barbara
• fol. 21r — Marginal scene, Music-making angels
• fol. 22r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 23r — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 24v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 25v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 27v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 28r — Two line illuminated initial F
• fol. 29r — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 30r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 31r — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 32v — Four line illuminated initial I
• fol. 33r — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 33v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 34v — Two line illuminated initial T
• fol. 36r — Historiated initial D, Visitation
• fol. 36r — Foliate panel border
• fol. 36r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 36v — Four line illuminated initial I
• fol. 37r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 38r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 39r — Two line illuminated initial B
• fol. 40v — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 41v — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 42r — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 43r — Two line illuminated initial U
• fol. 43r — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 43v — Two line illuminated initial B
• fol. 45r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 45r — Two line illuminated initial P
• fol. 45v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 45v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 46v — Historiated initial D, Visitation
• fol. 46v — Foliate panel border
• fol. 46v — Two line illuminated initial M
• fol. 47r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 47v — Two line illuminated initial B
• fol. 48v — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 48v — Two line illuminated initial Q
• fol. 49r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 49v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 49v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 50r — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 50v — Historiated initial D, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 50v — Two line illuminated initial M
• fol. 51r — Two line illuminated initial A
• fol. 51v — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 52r — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 52v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 53r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 53v — Two line illuminated initial P
• fol. 53v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 53v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 54v — Historiated initial D, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 54v — Foliate panel border
• fol. 54v — Two line illuminated initial M
• fol. 55r — Two line illuminated initial A
• fol. 55r — Two line illuminated initial N
• fol. 56r — Two line illuminated initial Q
• fol. 56v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 56v — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 57r — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 57r — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 57v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 58r — Historiated initial D, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 58r — Foliate panel border
• fol. 58r — Two line illuminated initial M
• fol. 58v — Large illuminated initial I
• fol. 59r — Two line illuminated initial N
• fol. 59v — Two line illuminated initial B
• fol. 60r — Large illuminated initial I
• fol. 60r — Two line illuminated initial F
• fol. 60v — Two line illuminated initial P
• fol. 60v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 61r — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 61v — Historiated initial D, Massacre of the Innocents
• fol. 61v — Foliate panel border
• fol. 61v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 62v — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 63r — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 63v — Two line illuminated initial N
• fol. 64v — Two line illuminated initial L
• fol. 65r — Two line illuminated initial A
• fol. 65r — Two line illuminated initial A
• fol. 66r — Two line illuminated initial M
• fol. 67r — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 67r — Two line illuminated initial P
• fol. 67v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 67v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 68r — Historiated initial C, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 68r — Foliate panel border
• fol. 68r — Two line illuminated initial S
• fol. 68v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 69r — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 69v — Two line illuminated initial M
• fol. 70r — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 70r — Two line illuminated initial N
• fol. 71r — Two line illuminated initial B
• fol. 71r — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 71v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 71v — Two line illuminated initial E
• fol. 72r — Two line illuminated initial R
• fol. 72v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 73r — Foliate border
• fol. 73r — Two line illuminated initial S
• fol. 73v — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 74r — Foliate border
• fol. 74r — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 74v — Two line illuminated initial C
• fol. 75r — Foliate border
• fol. 75r — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 75v — Two line illuminated initial D
• fol. 76r — Full-page miniature, Pietà with John and Mary Magdalene
• fol. 76r — Marginal scene, Angels
• fol. 77r — Foliate border
• fol. 77r — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 80v — Foliate border
• fol. 80v — Two line illuminated initial U
• fol. 80v — Two line illuminated initial T
• fol. 81r — Two line illuminated initial T
• fol. 81v — Two line illuminated initial Q
• fol. 82r — Two line illuminated initial Q
• fol. 82v — Two line illuminated initial S
• fol. 83r — Two line illuminated initial A
• fol. 83v — Two line illuminated initial T
• fol. 84r — Two line illuminated initial S
• fol. 85r — Two line illuminated initial S
• fol. 86r — Foliate border
• fol. 86r — Two line illuminated initial O
• fol. 87r — Two line illuminated initial S
• fol. 88r — Foliate border
• fol. 88r — Two line illuminated initial G
• fol. 89r — Foliate border
• fol. 90v — Foliate border
• fol. 92r — Full-page miniature, Arma Christi supported by Christ and the Virgin, surrounded by Evangelist Symbols and surmounted by Hand of God
• fol. 92r — Marginal scene, Angels with Instruments of the Passion
• fol. 93r — Foliate border
• fol. 94r — Historiated initial D, David in prayer
• fol. 94r — Foliate border
• fol. 94r — Marginal scene, Battling beasts
• fol. 113v — Foliate border
• fol. 121v — Foliate border
• fol. 132v — Foliate border
• fol. 135v — Foliate border
• fol. 138r — Foliate border
• fol. 140r — Foliate border
• fol. 142r — Historiated initial O, Christ with a Book
• fol. 142r — Foliate border
• fol. 142r — Marginal scene, Dancer
• fol. 151r — Historiated initial V, Martyrs of Ararat
• fol. 151r — Foliate border
• fol. 154v — Historiated initial D, Martyrdom of Saint Eustace and his Companions
• fol. 154v — Foliate border
• fol. 156r — Historiated initial O, Saint James
• fol. 156r — Foliate border
• fol. 156r — Marginal scene, Grotesque
• fol. 157r — Historiated initial O, Saint Anthony
• fol. 157r — Foliate border
• fol. 157r — Marginal scene, Dancer
• fol. 158r — Historiated initial O, Saint Christopher
• fol. 158r — Foliate border
• fol. 158r — Marginal scene, Dancer
• fol. 159v — Historiated initial O, Saint Sebastian
• fol. 159v — Foliate border
• fol. 159v — Marginal scene, Female grotesque with a mirror
• fol. 160v — Historiated initial F, Saint George
• fol. 160v — Foliate border
• fol. 160v — Marginal scene, Grotesque
• fol. 161v — Historiated initial A, Saint Adrian
• fol. 161v — Foliate border
• fol. 161v — Marginal scene, Grotesque
• fol. 162v — Historiated initial S, Saint Macarius of Ghent
• fol. 162v — Foliate border
• fol. 164r — Historiated initial G, Saint Livinus
• fol. 164r — Foliate border
• fol. 165r — Historiated initial A, Saint Andrew
• fol. 165r — Foliate border
• fol. 165v — Foliate border (pasted onto page)