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Book of Hours, Use of Paris Lewis E 96
Free Library of Philadelphia
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Abstract

This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Paris, produced in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. It contains sixteen large miniatures marking the major divisions of the text, and seventeen seven-line miniatures illustrating the Gospel Lessons after John and the Suffrages. The calendar and the prayers from folios 146v-154r are in French.

Physical Description

Support: Parchment; Extent: i+160+i; 164 x 107 mm bound to 176 x 125 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-5 (6), 6-7 (8), 8 (11, +8), 9 (6), 10 (12, +5 +9), 11 (10), 12 (8), 13 (4), 14 (7, +6), 15-17 (8), 18 (6), 19 (8), 20 (10), 21 (8); Catchwords: Faint catchwords visible at fols. 18v, 97v, 112v, and 120v

Layout

One column of eighteen lines; frame ruled in faint red ink; written area: 92 x 55 mm

Script

Gothic--textualis semiquadrata

Decoration

Sixteen large miniatures with foliate borders (underdrawing for Tree of Jesse miniature visible on fol. 23r); seventeen small seven-line miniatures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; foliate panel borders on versos; miniatures (except for Tree of Jesse) surrounded by three- or four-sided panel borders; headings, golden letters and important feasts in calendar in raised gold

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Notes

Calendar and fols. 146v-154r in French

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

Place of Origin

France

Date

Fourth quarter of the 15th century

Binding

Twentieth-century brown calf with tooled panels; edges gilded

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Provenance

Sale by Sotheby's to Maggs (London, 6 May 1909, no. 24); Sessler (1911), sold to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936

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Place of Origin

France

Date

Fourth quarter of the 15th century

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Provenance

Sale by Sotheby's to Maggs

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Paris, produced in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. It contains sixteen large miniatures marking the major divisions of the text, and seventeen seven-line miniatures illustrating the Gospel Lessons after John and the Suffrages. The calendar and the prayers from folios 146v-154r are in French.

Notes

Calendar and fols. 146v-154r in French

Script note

Gothic--textualis semiquadrata

Decoration Note

Sixteen large miniatures with foliate borders (underdrawing for Tree of Jesse miniature visible on fol. 23r); seventeen small seven-line miniatures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout; foliate panel borders on versos; miniatures (except for Tree of Jesse) surrounded by three- or four-sided panel borders; headings, golden letters and important feasts in calendar in raised gold

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