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Metadata

DS ID:

DS4479

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 125

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Book of hours

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+63+i; 179 x 124 mm bound to 189 x 130 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Brodrick, Charles

Charles Brodrick WIKIDATA

Ruskin, John

John Ruskin WIKIDATA

Lewis, John Frederick

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Calendar, some rubrics and prayers in French
Collation note: Structure uncertain; some leaves misbound; many leaves lacking; pages with large miniatures have been removed; no evidence of catchwords or quire signatures
Binding: Nineteenth-century red velvet covers; gilded, gauffered edges
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 25 lines; written area: 104x64 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Twenty-four calendar vignettes with the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months (fols. 1r-6v); foliate and inhabited borders, illuminated one- and two-line initials and line-fillers throughout
Provenance: Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel (d. 1822); John Ruskin (sold 1904); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; bookplate of Archbishop of Cashel pasted onto inside of front cover and the bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on recto of front flyleaf; two dealer catalog descriptions pasted onto the...

Keyword:

Liturgical use

Prayer books

Books of hours

France

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_125.html

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia