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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Other related names

• Le Seigneur, Margaret, former owner
• Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001080791.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 124
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560477
• deRicci: 86

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Rouen, France

Summary

This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, with its calendar and some rubrics in French. It is written in batârde and has eleven large miniatures with largely gold monumental borders, including one of a male owner kneeling before Saint Barbara, and one small miniature, but several missing leaves probably also had miniatures. The text pages do not have borders, but do have relatively ornate two-line initials and alternating one-line initials of gold on red or blue.

Notes

• Several leaves missing, including between fols. 18 and 19, 30 and 31, 41 and 42, 44 and 45, and after fol. 98
   
• First and last flyleaf are paper, inner flyleaves parchment
   
• Latin with calendar and some rubrics (starting fol. 81r) in French
   

Extent

Iii+98+iii; 145 x 95 mm bound to 152 x 100 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right-hand corner

Collation

1 (6), 2 (8), 3-4 (2), 5 (8, -1), 6 (8, -6), 7 (8), 8 (8, -2 -6), 9 (8), 10 (4), 11-15 (8)

Signatures

Early twentieth-century signatures in pencil by George Dunn, lower right first recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Occasional catchwords, lower right last verso when a new quire begins in the middle of a text division, including a dangling catchword on the last leaf of the manuscript (fols. 14v, 25v, 40v, 98v)

Binding

Original stamped leather over wooden boards, a panel on the top cover showing Saint Romanus (patron saint of Rouen) in episcopal robes treading on a dragon, and on the lower cover a panel depicting Ecce Homo, Christ with the instruments of the Passion, probably executed at Rouen at the end of the fifteenth century; rebacked and stamped in gold on spine: "PRECES PIAE"; marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves

Layout

One column of twenty-six lines; ruled in faint red ink; prickings visible on outer edges of pages; written area: 95 x 58 mm

Decoration

Eleven full-page miniatures; one quarter-page miniature; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen (sixteenth century); George Dunn, of Woolley Hall, sold 1914; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, who entered the births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and four sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582; book plate on inside of front cover: "George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead"; notes in pencil on verso of first flyleaf dated 1900 and initialed "G. D."
   

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. 2039, no. 86.
• 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 Library, 1937), pp. 138-139, no. 124.

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and 4 sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582
• fol. 1r — Calendar, Use of Rouen, in French
• fol. 7r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 10r — Passion according to John
• fol. 17r — Suffrage for Saint Barbara
• fol. 19r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rouen, intercalated with the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 48r — Penitential Psalms and Litany
• fol. 58r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 78v — Prayers, beginning with Pater noster
• fol. 88r — Prayer, Salva sancta facies
• fol. 88v — Prayer, Obsecro te
• fol. 90r — Prayer, O intemerata
• fol. 91v — Prayer, Stabat mater
• fol. 92v — Prayer, Ave Maria
• fol. 93r — Prayers to the Virgin, beginning with O virgo virginum
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and 4 sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and 4 sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notes dated 1900 and initialed "G.D"
• fol. 7r — Large miniature, Evangelist portrait, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 10r — Small miniature, Kiss of Judas
• fol. 17r — Large miniature, Male patron before Saint Barbara
• fol. 23v — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 29r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 30r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 33v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 36v — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 39v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 48r — Large miniature, David with Nathan
• fol. 58r — Large miniature, Job and his friends
• fol. 78v — Large miniature, Christ among the Apostles
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and 4 sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notes dated 1900 and initialed "G.D"
• Flyleaf 3 verso, note unfolded — Typed catalog description