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This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rouen.
Support: Parchment; 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)
Frame-ruled in ink; one column of 25 lines; written area: 104x64 mm
Bâtarde
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
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.
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
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.
France
Late 15th century
Nineteenth-century red velvet covers; gilded, gauffered edges
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
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
France
Late 15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel
This manuscript contains a Book of Hours, Use of Rouen.
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
Bâtarde
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
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.
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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