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Book of Hours, Use of Rouen Lewis E 124
Free Library of Philadelphia
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Abstract

This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, with its calendar and some rubrics in French. It is written in batârde and has eleven large miniatures with largely gold monumental borders, including one of a male owner kneeling before Saint Barbara, and one small miniature, but several missing leaves probably also had miniatures. The text pages do not have borders, but do have relatively ornate two-line initials and alternating one-line initials of gold on red or blue.

Physical Description

Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+98+iii; 145 x 95 mm bound to 152 x 100 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right-hand corner; Collation: 1 (6), 2 (8), 3-4 (2), 5 (8, -1), 6 (8, -6), 7 (8), 8 (8, -2 -6), 9 (8), 10 (4), 11-15 (8); Signatures: Early twentieth-century signatures in pencil by George Dunn, lower right first recto; Catchwords: Occasional catchwords, lower right last verso when a new quire begins in the middle of a text division, including a dangling catchword on the last leaf of the manuscript (fols. 14v, 25v, 40v, 98v)

Layout

One column of twenty-six lines; ruled in faint red ink; prickings visible on outer edges of pages; written area: 95 x 58 mm

Script

Bâtarde

Decoration

Eleven full-page miniatures; one quarter-page miniature; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

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Notes

Several leaves missing, including between fols. 18 and 19, 30 and 31, 41 and 42, 44 and 45, and after fol. 98

First and last flyleaf are paper, inner flyleaves parchment

Latin with calendar and some rubrics (starting fol. 81r) in French

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

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Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
15th century
French
France
Book of Hours
Private devotional text
Devotion
Miniature
Illustration
Illumination
Free Library of Philadelphia

Place of Origin

Rouen, France

Date

Last quarter 15th century with owner inscriptions dated 1549-1582

Binding

Original stamped leather over wooden boards, a panel on the top cover showing Saint Romanus (patron saint of Rouen) in episcopal robes treading on a dragon, and on the lower cover a panel depicting Ecce Homo, Christ with the instruments of the Passion, probably executed at Rouen at the end of the fifteenth century; rebacked and stamped in gold on spine: "PRECES PIAE"; marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Provenance

Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen (sixteenth century); George Dunn, of Woolley Hall, sold 1914; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes from Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, who entered the births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and four sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582; book plate on inside of front cover: "George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead"; notes in pencil on verso of first flyleaf dated 1900 and initialed "G. D."

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Place of Origin

Rouen, France

Date

Last quarter 15th century with owner inscriptions dated 1549-1582

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Provenance

Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, with its calendar and some rubrics in French. It is written in batârde and has eleven large miniatures with largely gold monumental borders, including one of a male owner kneeling before Saint Barbara, and one small miniature, but several missing leaves probably also had miniatures. The text pages do not have borders, but do have relatively ornate two-line initials and alternating one-line initials of gold on red or blue.

Notes

Several leaves missing, including between fols. 18 and 19, 30 and 31, 41 and 42, 44 and 45, and after fol. 98

First and last flyleaf are paper, inner flyleaves parchment

Latin with calendar and some rubrics (starting fol. 81r) in French

Script note

Bâtarde

Decoration Note

Eleven full-page miniatures; one quarter-page miniature; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
15th century
French
France
Book of Hours
Private devotional text
Devotion
Miniature
Illustration
Free Library of Philadelphia
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