Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 111

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DS ID:

DS4465

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 111

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Place:

Paris?, France

Paris TGN

Date:

1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 108; 185 x 125 mm bound to 200 x 137 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Le Muet, Claude

Claude Le Muet WIKIDATA

Richardson, Thomas F.

Thomas F. Richardson WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

A rubric on fol. 58v suggests that the Hours of the Holy Spirit were once included, but it is now missing
Fol. 1 (ruled but left blank) has been tipped into the manuscript
Numerous ornamental inscriptions are found on scrolls in the borders of the manuscript, some of which are readable: "O BEATE LUCA FAC NOS..." (fol. 9r); "MATEE APOSTOLI..." (fol. 10r); "CHORO ETERNALI" (fol. 10r); "O BEATE MARC..." (fol. 11v); "AB OMNIS..." (fol. 11v); "O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI AMEN" (fol. 12v); "MARIA MATER GRACIE MATER MISERI..." (fol. 12v); "FUIT HOMO MISUS ADEO CUI" (fol...
Binding: Sixteenth-century brown morocco over wooden boards; gilt stamped decoration on front and back cover; gilt edges; with brown slipcase stamped "BOUND BY H. ZUCKER PHILA."
Layout: One column of eighteen lines, ruled in red; written area: 100 x 68 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: One full-page miniature (for Terce of the Hours of the Virgin; remaining miniatures missing), marginal images; floral and inhabited borders throughout, some with devotional mottoes in banderoles; red, blue, and gold decorated initials and line fillers throughout
Related resource: 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. 2038, no. 77.
Related resource: 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 Free Library, 1937), pp. 122-123, no. 111.
Related resource: Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months & Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and The Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 58, 82, 103, 134, 153, 164, 190, 202, 177, 280.
Provenance: Claude Le Muet (eighteenth century); Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; on fol. 2r in an eighteenth-century hand, "A Claude Le Muet Tresorier de l'église d'Auxerre."; on fol. 108r, a note explains the acquisition of the manuscript from his nephew, "His Liber iam nunc ad...

Keyword:

Books of hours

Christianity

illustrations (layout features)

France

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_111.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_111/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia