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This manuscript is a compact Book of Hours of the Use of Bourges produced around the turn of the sixteenth century. The Hours of the Virgin are intercalated with the Hours of the Cross. Its miniatures have been excised, but every remaining text page has been decorated with a shaded gold border on the three outer sides, a blue cherub at the outer margin and two red seraphim above and below the text respectively. The lower pastedown contains a signed ownership note by the prominent Bourges patrician and book collector Jean Lallemant the Younger (d. 1548), dated to July 12, 1544. This has been taken erroneously as the date of the book, which is in fact significantly earlier.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+63+i; 167 x 105 mm bound to 177 x 118 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; Collation: 1 (6), 2 (8, -2), 3 (8), 4 (8, -3 -4), 5 (8), 6 (8, -3), 7 (8, -7 -8), 8 (10, -10), 9 (8, -7 -8)
One column of twenty-seven lines; frame ruled in faint red ink, some pricking visible; written area: 110 x 62 mm
Bâtarde (with humanistic elements)
Margins of each gold-framed page decorated with two red seraphs and one blue cherub, eleven illuminated initials, red and blue line-endings for the Suffrages, alternating red and blue rubrics and initials 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.
Ownership inscription dated 12 July 1544 by Jean Lallemant on the lower pastedown (inside back cover) has been erroneously considered to be of the same date as the manuscript; script and decoration indicate a date of circa 1490-1510 (according to Nicholas Herman, January 2017); at least four leaves, probably with full-page miniatures, have been excised before the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours of the Cross, the Penitential Psalms, and the Office of the Dead, with additional leaves missing elsewhere
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.
Bourges, France
Calendar includes feast of Saint William, archbishop of Bourges in blue (fol. 1r, January 10); Dedication of the Cathedral of Bourges in blue (fol. 3r, May 5); rubric on fol. 7v mentions the Use of Bourges; between 1490 and 1510
Embroidered and brocade cloth over pasteboards, nineteenth century
Latin
Armorial bookplate of Alphonse Labitte on front pastedown; W. C. Crane sale via Anderson Auction Co., New York, December 10, 1912; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia by John Frederick Lewis's widow, Anne Baker Lewis, in 1936; provenance inscriptions on inside back cover
Bourges, France
Calendar includes feast of Saint William, archbishop of Bourges in blue (fol. 1r, January 10); Dedication of the Cathedral of Bourges in blue (fol. 3r, May 5); rubric on fol. 7v mentions the Use of Bourges; between 1490 and 1510
Latin
Armorial bookplate of Alphonse Labitte on front pastedown; W. C. Crane sale via Anderson Auction Co., New York, December 10, 1912; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia by John Frederick Lewis's widow, Anne Baker Lewis, in 1936; provenance inscriptions on inside back cover
This manuscript is a compact Book of Hours of the Use of Bourges produced around the turn of the sixteenth century. The Hours of the Virgin are intercalated with the Hours of the Cross. Its miniatures have been excised, but every remaining text page has been decorated with a shaded gold border on the three outer sides, a blue cherub at the outer margin and two red seraphim above and below the text respectively. The lower pastedown contains a signed ownership note by the prominent Bourges patrician and book collector Jean Lallemant the Younger (d. 1548), dated to July 12, 1544. This has been taken erroneously as the date of the book, which is in fact significantly earlier.
Ownership inscription dated 12 July 1544 by Jean Lallemant on the lower pastedown (inside back cover) has been erroneously considered to be of the same date as the manuscript; script and decoration indicate a date of circa 1490-1510 (according to Nicholas Herman, January 2017); at least four leaves, probably with full-page miniatures, have been excised before the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours of the Cross, the Penitential Psalms, and the Office of the Dead, with additional leaves missing elsewhere
Bâtarde (with humanistic elements)
Margins of each gold-framed page decorated with two red seraphs and one blue cherub, eleven illuminated initials, red and blue line-endings for the Suffrages, alternating red and blue rubrics and initials 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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