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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4477

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 123

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Book of hours

Place:

Rouen, France

Rouen TGN

France TGN

Date:

1485-1799

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); French

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle French WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+95+ii; 171 x 120 mm bound to 180 x 123 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Du Pré, Jacqueline

Jacqueline du Pré WIKIDATA

Trapnell, Alfred

Alfred Trapnell WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Latin with calendar and prayers in French
One leaf missing between fols. 58 and 59, based on gap in earlier pagination; missing page would have been the beginning of the Penitential Psalms
Binding: Contemporary brown calf; gilt tooled decoration; IACQVELINE stamped in gold on upper cover, DV PRE on lower cover; rebacked
Layout: One column of twenty-three lines, with an outer column for the floral border, the same height as the written area; ruled in red ink; written area: 104 x 63 mm
Script: Bâtarde with eighteenth-century additions (fols. 94v-95v)
Decoration: Two full-page miniatures (on facing pages); twelve three-quarter-page miniatures; floral borders on outer vertical margins, illuminated 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. 2037, no. 72.
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 Library, 1937), pp. 136-137, no. 123.
Provenance: Jacqueline Du Pré (late fifteenth-early sixteenth century); Alfred Trapnell, sold 1910; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; the name "IACQVELINE" stamped on the upper cover and "DV PRE" on the lower; bookplate of Alfred Trapnell on inside front cover; bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on first...

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_123.html

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia