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

Title

Prayer book

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Fontaine, Charles, approximately 1514-, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96026089.html)
• White, Henry, former owner
• Greene, T.W., former owner
• Dobell, Bertram, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 176
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1471765
• deRicci: 109
• Leaves-of-gold: 43
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2956

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Saint Amand, France

Summary

This manuscript consists of a collection of various prayers to be read in conjunction with portions of the Mass, but it follows no known common set of prayers. The manuscript contains four full-page miniatures that introduce each section of prayers. These depict, respectively, the owner (a Benedictine monk with an unidentified coat-of-arms) in prayer before an altar (fol. 2v), a monstrance adored by two musical angels (fol. 26v), the Virgin and Child in glory (fol. 112v), and the Trinity (fol. 122v). The book is dated precisely to 22 September 1538 on folio 146v, and can be localized to Saint Amand, near Valenciennes. Later additions at the beginning and end of the manuscript are dated 1576 and contain the name of a later owner, Charles Fontaine, but the identity of the original owner depicted in the miniature on fol. 2v remains unknown. The later additions as-yet contain unidentified mottoes and coats-of-arms. The rubrics of several prayers indicate that indulgences would be granted upon reading. The manuscript is closely related in script, date, and localization to Lewis E 109.

Notes

• Areas of paint in the miniatures and border decoration are in poor condition, especially on first and last folios; sewing structures compromised between some gatherings
   

Extent

Ii+149+ii; 131 x 85 mm bound to 136 x 89 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; after fol. 45 there is a fol. 45bis; the foliation has not been corrected

Collation

1 (12), 2 (6, +5 +6), 3 (8), 4 (7, +7), 5-6 (8), 7 (7, +7), 8-9 (8), 10 (9, +9), 11 (12), 12 (8), 13 (6), 14-15 (8), 16 (2), 17 (8), 18 (6), 19 (8), 20 (2)

Support

Parchment

Binding

English, purple morocco with blind-tooled covers, gilt lettering on spine ("MANUSCRIPT"), silk and gilt-tooled doublures, early 19th century

Layout

One column of 18-21 lines, lead point ruling (barely visible); written area: 89 x 57 mm

Decoration

Four full-page miniatures: Benedictine Monk, likely the original owner (f. 2v), Two Angels Holding a Monstrance (f. 26v), Virgin and Child in Glory, the Virgin standing on a crescent (f. 112v), Holy Trinity (Gnadenstuhl type) (f. 122v); three illuminated initials with borders, one two-thirds page miniature: IHS monogram (f. 146v); four borders with coats of arms around text pages; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Made at the abbey of Saint Amand, dated "1538.22. d'Septeb" on fol. 146v; name and coat of arms of Charles Fontaine in borders alongside added text (fols. 1-2, 147-148), 16th century; Henry White, London, second half of the nineteenth century; his sale, Sotheby's, London, April 21-May 2, 1902, lot 1142; T.W. Greene; sale, Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1913, lot 330; Bertram Dobell (bookseller), London (later P.J. & A.E. Dobell); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; 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. 2043, no. 109.
• 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. 189-191, no. 176.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 128-129, no. 43.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2956/)

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 16th century
• French
• Miniature
• France
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Commendatio (added 1576), rubric: Commendatio ad Deum supplici inente de mane dicendo; incipit: Omnipotens sempiterne deus conditor mundi... [fol. 1r]; explicit: …qui in trinitatie perfecta viuis et regnaris. Per omnia secula. [fol. 2r]
• fol. 3r — Prayers to be said before Confession, including meditations on the Passion (fols. 5r-26r), with readings from Ludolf of Saxony, Pope Urban V, and Bernard of Clairvaux, rubric: Sequuntur orationes dicende a[n]te confessionem; incipit: Per sanctorum omnium angelorum archangelorum patriacharum... [fol. 3r]; explicit: …ad requiem paradisi perducar. Amen. [fol. 26r]
• fol. 27r — Prayers to be said before Mass (first folio with rubric has been removed; folio facing miniatures begins with prayer to the Holy Trinity to be said on Sundays), rubric: Dominicis diebus ad sanctam trinitatem; incipit: [missing]; explicit: …tu scis et necessitatem nostram nostri. Qui viuis. [fol. 112r]
• fol. 113r — Prayers to the Virgin Mary, rubric: Sequuntur orationes deuote ad gloriosam Virginem Mariam. Sixtus papa eius[?] hanc sequentem orationem edidit et omnibus eam deuote dicentibus coram ymagine [hainis meae?] sole et luna dedit indulgentias XI iii annorum totiens qotiens quis legerit in statu gratia.; incipit: Ave sanctissima maria mater dei regina celi… [fol. 113r]; explicit: …et benedicte passionis tue doloris gladius pertransunt. Qui viuis et regnas deus. Per omnia secula seculorum. Amen [fol. 112r]
• fol. 123r — Suffrages, rubric: Sequuntur suffragia sanctorum et sanctarum. Et prima oratio ad deum patrem; incipit: Pater de celis deum. Misere nobis... [fol. 123r]; explicit: …cum patre et paradiso regnanti in perpetuum. Amen. [fol. 146v]
• fol. 147r — Prayer to All Saints (added 1576), rubric: Oratio ad omnes sanctos; incipit: Succurrite michi queso omnes sancti et sanctae dei... [fol. 147r]; explicit: …Presentante domino nostro Iesu Christo. Qui cum deo proximo[?] et spiritu sancto viuit et regnat deus. Per omnia secula. [fol. 148r]
• fol. 148v — Prayers said after Mass (incomplete; added 1576), rubric: Gratiarum actiones post missam; incipit: Trium puerorum cantemus hymnum [fol. 148v]; explicit: …et per te cepta finiat… [fol. 148v; text ends imperfectly]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated architectural border with coat-of-arms
• fol. 1r — Inscription, IL N'EST PLAISIR
• fol. 2r — Illuminated border with coat-of-arms
• fol. 2r — Illuminated border with inscription, CEDE VINCE D. CAROLUS FONTANUS; QU'A DIEU SERVIR
• fol. 2v — Full-page miniature, Benedictine Monk in prayer before Altar, unidentified coat-of-arms
• fol. 3r — Illuminated border
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 26v — Full-page miniature, Two music-making angels flanking a monstrance
• fol. 26v — Illuminated border with inscription, ECCE PANIS ANGELORUM FACTUS CIBUS VIATORUM
• fol. 27r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 95r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 112v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child in Glory, the Virgin standing on a crescent
• fol. 112v — Illuminated architectural border
• fol. 113r — Illuminated architectural border
• fol. 122v — Full-page miniature, Holy Trinity (Gnadenstuhl type)
• fol. 122v — Illuminated frame border
• fol. 123r — Illuminated frame border
• fol. 146v — Large miniature, IHS Monogram with rebus "Je pense à toi"
• fol. 147r — Inscription, SOUVENIR GRIEF
• fol. 147r — Illuminated border with coat-of-arms
• fol. 148v — Inscription, ESPOIR CO[N]TENT (lower border), 1576 (upper border)
• fol. 148v — Illuminated border with coat-of-arms