Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rouen

Other related names

• Brodrick, Charles, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/315945232/)
• Ruskin, John, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 125
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560478
• deRicci: 81

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rouen.

Notes

• 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
   

Extent

I+63+i; 179 x 124 mm bound to 189 x 130 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (10, -10), 3-14 (10), 15 (12, -12)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century red velvet covers; gilded, gauffered edges

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 25 lines; written area: 104x64 mm

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

Script

Bâtarde

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 inside of the back cover
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic--France
• Books of hours
• France

Genres

• Liturgical use

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• Prayer book
• Private devotional text
• France
• French
• 15th century
• Illumination
• Illustration

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, Rouen use
• fol. 7r — Gospel Lesson
• fol. 9v — Obsecro te
• fol. 11v — O intemerata
• fol. 14r — Hours of the Virgin, Rouen use
• fol. 18r — Suffrages
• fol. 21r — Hours of the Virgin, continued
• fol. 25r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 26r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 27r — Penitential Psalms
• fol. 32v — Suffrages
• fol. 34v — Petitions
• fol. 37r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 51v — Athanasian Creed
• fol. 53v — Prayer to God the Father
• fol. 54v — Prayer and Protestation
• fol. 55r — 7 Prayers of Saint Gregory
• fol. 56r — Prayers for entering the church, before the Crucifix, at the elevation of Host, at the elevation of the chalice, and when one receives communion and Minor Prayers against the temptation of the flesh, for tribulations, for traveling, and for the father and mother
• fol. 61r — Prayers to the Virgin Mary

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Archbishop of Cashel
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• fol. 1r — Calendar vignette, Aquarius (zodiac sign of January)
• fol. 1r — Calendar vignette, January and its labors feasting
• fol. 1v — Calendar vignette, Pisces (zodiac sign of February)
• fol. 1v — Calendar vignette, February and its labors keeping warm
• fol. 2r — Calendar vignette, Aries (zodiac sign of March)
• fol. 2r — Calendar vignette, March and its labors pruning vines
• fol. 2v — Calendar vignette, Taurus, (zodiac sign of April)
• fol. 2v — Calendar vignette, April and its labors hawking
• fol. 3r — Calendar vignette, Gemini (zodiac sign of May)
• fol. 3r — Calendar vignette, May and its labors horseback riding
• fol. 3v — Calendar vignette, Cancer (zodiac sign of June)
• fol. 3v — Calendar vignette, June and its labors sheering sheep
• fol. 4r — Calendar vignette, Leo, (zodiac sign of July)
• fol. 4r — Calendar vignette, July and its labors reaping
• fol. 4v — Calendar vignette, Virgo (zodiac sign of August)
• fol. 4v — Calendar vignette, August and its labors threshing
• fol. 5r — Calendar vignette, Libra (zodiac sign of September)
• fol. 5r — Calendar vignette, September and its labors sowing
• fol. 5v — Calendar vignette, Scorpio (zodiac sign of October)
• fol. 5v — Calendar vignette, October and its labors treading grapes
• fol. 6r — Calendar vignette, Sagittarius (zodiac sign of November)
• fol. 6r — Calendar vignette, November and its labors thrashing for acorns
• fol. 6v — Calendar vignette, Capricorn (zodiac sign of December)
• fol. 6v — Calendar vignette, December and its labors slaughtering a pig
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial, Initial O
• fol. 11v — Decorated initial, Initial O
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Inside back cover — Two dealer catalog descriptions