Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 133

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DS ID:

DS4487

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 133

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

Artist:

Master of the Troyes Missal (French illuminator, active ca. 1460-1470)

Master of the Troyes Missal WIKIDATA

Place:

Troyes, France

Troyes TGN

Date:

1455-1465

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+160+iii; 185 x 130 mm bound to 190 x 136 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932

John Frederick Lewis WIKIDATA

Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

A. S. W. Rosenbach WIKIDATA

Bezard, Guillemette

Guillemette Bezard WIKIDATA

Locker, Frederick

Frederick Locker-Lampson WIKIDATA

Thoué, René Antoine

René Antoine Thoué WIKIDATA

Note:

Excised folios between fols. 25 and 26 (removed prior to pagination, note in an eighteenth-century hand on fol. 26r: "Hic evidens . . . pravè . . . truncatum instium offici de sancto spiritu"), fols. 29 and 30, and fols. 150 and 151 (removed after pagination); excised folios possibly contained miniatures: Pentecost at the beginning of the Hours of the Holy Spirit, and Annunciation at Matins of...
Corrections to and identifications of text written in margins throughout in an eighteenth-century (?) hand
Contents listed in French on slip of paper attached to parchment flyleaf, written in same hand as the paginator
Binding: French calf, gold-tooled fanfare binding in the style of Clovis Eve, lettered "Guillemette" (upper cover) and "Bezard" (lower cover), late-sixteenth century
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, frame ruled in red ink; written area: 102 x 64 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Five half-page miniatures with inhabited foliate borders, seven four-line illuminated and decorated initials, illuminated initials with foliate sprays and line endings 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. 2035, no. 62.
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. 147-148, no. 133.
Related resource: Plummer, John, with Gregory Clark, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; London: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 60.
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 76 n. 5, 120 n. 3.
Related resource: Reinburg, Virginia, French books of hours: making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 76-77.
Provenance: Guillemette Bezard, sixteenth century; given to a priest of Saint Jacques du Marché, Paris, in 1745; René Antoine (Renati Antonii) Thoué, Paris, 1756; nos. 108 and 42 in two old French libraries; Frederick Locker (sold 1905); E.D. Church (sold to Dodd, Mead & Co.); purchased by John Frederick Lewis, from A. S. W. Rosenbach (1910); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free...

Keyword:

Books of hours

France

illustrations (layout features)

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Gothic (Medieval)

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

miniatures (paintings)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_133.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_133/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia