Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 126

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DS ID:

DS4480

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 126

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Place:

Rouen?, France

Rouen TGN

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+76+i; 160 x 112 mm bound to 166 x 121 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Richardson, Thomas F.

Thomas F. Richardson WIKIDATA

Lewis, Anne Baker

Anne Baker Lewis WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript has been severely trimmed, especially along top edge
Inscription at top of architrave on fol. 35v, apparently original, mentions Louis XII of France (erroneously mentioned in Wolf as Louis XI of Burgundy): "LVDOVICVS : REX : FRANCORVM : BONVS : OPERATVS" ; inscription on plinth on same page reads "AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINVS TECVM BENEDITV IN" (sic)
Binding: Sixteenth-century light brown morocco, gilt stamp with image of the instruments of the Passion on the covers with "INRI" inscribed on the crosses; gilt edges
Layout: Two columns of twenty-five lines, frame ruled in red ink; written area: 116 x 75 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Twenty-four calendar vignettes, featuring the signs of the zodiac and the labors of the months; one full-page coat-of-arms, fifteen full-page miniatures; lateral borders on every page, each different, formed of leafy sprays and baroque decorations in geometric divisions, in shell gold, grisaille, and colors, decorated and 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), pp. 2038-2039, no. 83.
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. 140-141, no. 126.
Related resource: Tanis, James, ed., Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia collections (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), p. 118, n. 5.
Provenance: Members of the families of Quinard of Languedoc and Venot de Noisy of Burgundy and Lyonnais; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston (stamped on front flyleaf: "Collection of Thos. F. Richardson, Boston"); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia ("John F. Lewis, 1919" written in ink on front flyleaf; pencil notes also written in Lewis's hand on front flyleaf); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis...

Keyword:

Prayer books

Sixteenth century

Books of hours

French (culture or style)

France

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_126.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_126/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia