Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 212

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DS ID:

DS4556

Shelfmark:

Lewis E 212

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Place:

Paris(?) or Tours(?), France

Paris TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+221+i; 160 x 110 mm bound to 172 x 116 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Vauvré, Jean-Louis Girardin seigneur de 1647-1724

Jean-Louis Girardin de Vauvré WIKIDATA

Morris, Lydia T.

Lydia Thompson Morris WIKIDATA

Note:

Printed early-twentieth-century catalogue entry pasted onto inside front cover; page of notes in French in a nineteenth-century hand tipped onto recto of front flyleaf; written in pencil on this sheet, "Gift of Lydia T. Morris"; stamped on recto of front flyleaf, "Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, February 1926"; traces of notes written in ink on fol. 1r, now to faint to read, possibly in a...
Binding: Eighteenth-century French calf, circa 1700, gilt stamped with the arms of Jean-Louis Girardin de Vauvré (a shield with three bird heads), on front and back cover; traces of gilding on edges
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 84 x 50 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Script: Gothic--rotunda (with northern elements)
Script: Scribe 1: fols. 2r-213r; scribe 2: fols. 213v-220r
Decoration: Twenty-six border vignettes: keeping warm (fol. 2r), Aquarius (fol. 2v), feasting (fol. 3r), Pisces (fol. 3v), pruning (fol. 4r), Aries (fol. 4v), picking flowers (fol. 5r), Taurus (fol. 5v), Couple on horseback (fol. 6r), Gemini (fol. 6v), mowing (fol. 7r), Cancer (fol. 7v), reaping (fol. 8r), Leo (fol. 8v), threshing (fol. 9r), Virgo (fol. 9v), treading grapes (fol. 10r), Libra...
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. 2013, no. 1.
Provenance: In Spain, ca. 1600; Jean-Louis Girardin de Vauvré (1642-1724); sale by Sotheby (London, 12 December 1907, n. 170); Maggs Cat. 244 (1909), n. 296; given to the Free Library by Lydia T. Morris in 1926

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_212.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_212/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia