Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 87

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DS ID:

DS4441

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 87

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Bourges

Place:

Bourges, France

Bourges TGN

Date:

1490-1510

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+63+i; 167 x 105 mm bound to 177 x 118 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Crane, W. C.

Warren C. Crane WIKIDATA

Labitte, Alphonse, 1853-

Alphonse Labitte WIKIDATA

Lallemant, Jean, -1548

Jean Lallemant WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Ownership inscription dated 12 July 1544 by Jean Lallemant on the lower pastedown (inside back cover) has been erroneously considered to be of the same date as the manuscript; script and decoration indicate a date of circa 1490-1510 (according to Nicholas Herman, January 2017); at least four leaves, probably with full-page miniatures, have been excised before the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours...
Binding: Embroidered and brocade cloth over pasteboards, nineteenth century
Layout: One column of twenty-seven lines; frame ruled in faint red ink, some pricking visible; written area: 110 x 62 mm
Script: Bâtarde (with humanistic elements)
Decoration: Margins of each gold-framed page decorated with two red seraphs and one blue cherub, eleven illuminated initials, red and blue line-endings for the Suffrages, alternating red and blue rubrics and initials throughout
Related resource: Reinburg, Virginia, French books of hours: making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 246.
Related resource: Bagnoli, Martina, ed., Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2009), p. 31, n. 30.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Alphonse Labitte on front pastedown; W. C. Crane sale via Anderson Auction Co., New York, December 10, 1912; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia by John Frederick Lewis's widow, Anne Baker Lewis, in 1936; provenance inscriptions on inside back cover

Keyword:

Prayer books

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

France

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

damage (condition)

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_087.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_087/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia