Description of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 126: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen contributor Diane Biunno cataloger Nicholas Herman Council on Library and Information Resources Free Library of Philadelphia These images and the content of Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 126: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen 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/. 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 126: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen. 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. Manuscript has been severely trimmed, especially along top edge Inscription at top of architrave on fol. 35v, apparently original, mentions Louis XII of France (erroneously mentioned in Wolf as Louis XI of Burgundy): "LVDOVICVS : REX : FRANCORVM : BONVS : OPERATVS" ; inscription on plinth on same page reads "AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINVS TECVM BENEDITV IN" (sic) 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), pp. 2038-2039, no. 83. 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. 140-141, no. 126. Tanis, James, ed., Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia collections (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), p. 118, n. 5. United States Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts Lewis E 126 https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560479 83 This richly illuminated Book of Hours of the Use of Rouen includes fifteen full-page miniatures, most of which are framed by elaborate architectural frames painted in shell gold. The calendar contains twenty-four vignettes representing the scenes of the zodiac and the labors of the month. The unusual miniature on fol. 14v represents an allegory known as the "Procès du Paradis," with female figures in grisaille representing Ecclesia, Justice, Pity, and Wisdom flanking an angel and overseen by the Trinity. An apparently original inscription above the miniature on fol. 35v mentions "Louis King of the French," presumably a reference to Louis XII (r. 1498–1515). The arms of the first owners, a man from the Quinard of Languedoc and a woman from the Venot-de-Noisy are included on a roundel on fol. 37v. A miniature on fol. 69r shows the couple who originally owned the book in prayer before the Virgin and Child. The remaining text pages are decorated with imaginatively varied panel borders. The calendar is of the Use of Rouen, with Saint Romain appearing in gold (23 October, fol. 5v). The Litany includes local Rouen Saints Mello, Romanus, Audoen, Ausbert, Wandregisil, and Wulfran. Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) Book of Hours, Use of Rouen former owner Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 former owner Richardson, Thomas F. former owner Lewis, Anne Baker [Flyleaf 1 recto] Ownership notes and Thomas Richardson stamp [1r] Calendar, in French 7v Gospel Lessons followed by Obsecro te and O intemerata 15v Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rouen, intercalated with the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit 43v Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers [52v] Office of the Dead 69v Prayers to the Virgin for Saturday followed by other Prayers and Suffrages

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 i+76+i; 160 x 112 mm bound to 166 x 121 mm Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

1 (6), 2 (5, +5), 3 (5, +5), 4 (6), 5-8 (10), 9 (6), 10 (8)

 Two columns of twenty-five lines, frame ruled in red ink; written area: 116 x 75 mm Bâtarde Twenty-four calendar vignettes, featuring the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months; one full-page coat-of-arms, fifteen full-page miniatures; lateral borders on every page, each different, formed of leafy sprays and baroque decorations in geometric divisions, in shell gold, grisaille, and colors, decorated and illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout [1r]Calendar vignette, Aquarius (zodiacal sign of January) [1r]Calendar vignette, January and its labors feasting [1v]Calendar vignette, Pisces (zodiacal sign of February) [1v]Calendar vignette, February and its labors keeping warm [2r]Calendar vignette, Aries (zodiacal sign of March) [2r]Calendar vignette, March and its labors pruning vines [2v]Calendar vignette, Taurus, (zodiacal sign of April) [2v]Calendar vignette, April and its labors hawking [3r]Calendar vignette, Gemini (zodiacal sign of May) [3r]Calendar vignette, May and its labors [3v]Calendar vignette, Cancer (zodiacal sign of June) [3v]Calendar vignette, June and its labors sheep herding 4rCalendar vignette, Leo, (zodiacal sign of July) 4rCalendar vignette, July and its labors reaping 4vCalendar vignette, Virgo (zodiacal sign of August) 4vCalendar vignette, August and its labors threshing [5r]Calendar vignette, Libra (zodiacal sign of September) [5r]Calendar vignette, September and its labors sowing [5v]Calendar vignette, Scorpio (zodiacal sign of October) [5v]Calendar vignette, October and its labors treading grapes 6rCalendar vignette, Sagittarius (zodiacal sign of November) 6rCalendar vignette, November and its labors thrashing for acorns 6vCalendar vignette, Capricorn (zodiacal sign of December) 6vCalendar vignette, December and its labors baking 7rFull-page miniature, John drinks from the poisoned chalice, given to him by the priest of Diana at Ephesus 14vFull-page miniature, Allegory of the Church Justice, Piety, and Wisdom with the Trinity ("Procès de Paradis") 15rFull-page miniature, Annunciation 20vFull-page miniature, Visitation 26rFull-page miniature, Crucifixion 27rFull-page miniature, Pentecost 28rFull-page miniature, Nativity 31vFull-page miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds 33vFull-page miniature, Adoration of the Magi 35vFull-page miniature, Presentation in the Temple 37vCoat of Arms within wreath medallion 38rFull-page miniature, Flight into Egypt 40rFull-page miniature, Coronation of the Virgin 43rFull-page miniature, King David playing the Harp [52r]Full-page miniature, Job on the Dung Heap mocked by his Friends 69rFull-page miniature, Man and Woman (owners or patrons) kneeling before the Virgin and Child

Sixteenth-century light brown morocco, gilt stamp with image of the instruments of the Passion on the covers with "INRI" inscribed on the crosses; gilt edges

Arms of the first owners on fol. 37v (per pale, one, azure between four crescents argent a saltire engrailed or, two, gules a tower with gateway argent): coat-of-arms in a wreath, with the arms of the husband and wife impaled, identified by A. Van de Put as those of Quinard of Languedoc, and Venot-de-Noisy of Burgundy and the Lyonnais; dexter arms alternatively identified as those of the Vauquelin of Normandy by Jean-Luc Deuffic (https://sites.google.com/site/heuresbookofhours/, accessed 29 March 2017); circa 1500

Rouen?, France Members of the families of Quinard of Languedoc and Venot de Noisy of Burgundy and Lyonnais; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston (stamped on front flyleaf: "Collection of Thos. F. Richardson, Boston"); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia ("John F. Lewis, 1919" written in ink on front flyleaf; pencil notes also written in Lewis's hand on front flyleaf); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Book of Hours 15th century 16th century Miniature Illumination France French Prayer book Private devotional text Illustration