Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 124

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DS ID:

DS4478

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 124

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Place:

Rouen, France

Rouen TGN

Date:

1475-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+98+iii; 145 x 95 mm bound to 152 x 100 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Le Seigneur, Margaret

Margaret Le Seigneur WIKIDATA

Dunn, George, 1864-1912

George Dunn WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Several leaves missing, including between fols. 18 and 19, 30 and 31, 41 and 42, 44 and 45, and after fol. 98
First and last flyleaf are paper, inner flyleaves parchment
Latin with calendar and some rubrics (starting fol. 81r) in French
Binding: Original stamped leather over wooden boards, a panel on the top cover showing Saint Romanus (patron saint of Rouen) in episcopal robes treading on a dragon, and on the lower cover a panel depicting Ecce Homo, Christ with the instruments of the Passion, probably executed at Rouen at the end of the fifteenth century; rebacked and stamped in gold on spine: "PRECES PIAE"; marbled paper...
Layout: One column of twenty-six lines; ruled in faint red ink; prickings visible on outer edges of pages; written area: 95 x 58 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Eleven full-page miniatures; one quarter-page miniature; 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. 2039, no. 86.
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. 138-139, no. 124.
Provenance: Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen (sixteenth century); George Dunn, of Woolley Hall, sold 1914; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, who entered the births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and four sons from 24 December...

Keyword:

Books of hours

France

illustrations (layout features)

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_124.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_124/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia