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Calendar, Paris use (in French) 1r
Gospel Lessons 13r
Obsecro te 17v
Hours of the Virgin 24r
Penitential Psalms 83r
Litany and Prayers 94r
Hours of the Cross 99v
Hours of the Holy Spirit 103r
Office of the Dead 106r
15 Joys of the Virgin (in French) 146v
Seven Requests to our Lord (in French) 151v
Suffrages 154v
Calendar, Paris use (in French) 1r
Gospel Lessons 13r
Obsecro te 17v
Hours of the Virgin 24r
Penitential Psalms 83r
Litany and Prayers 94r
Hours of the Cross 99v
Hours of the Holy Spirit 103r
Office of the Dead 106r
15 Joys of the Virgin (in French) 146v
Seven Requests to our Lord (in French) 151v
Suffrages 154v
Calendar, Paris use (in French) 1r
Gospel Lessons 13r
Obsecro te 17v
Hours of the Virgin 24r
Penitential Psalms 83r
Litany and Prayers 94r
Hours of the Cross 99v
Hours of the Holy Spirit 103r
Office of the Dead 106r
15 Joys of the Virgin (in French) 146v
Seven Requests to our Lord (in French) 151v
Suffrages 154v
Calendar, Paris use (in French) 1r
Gospel Lessons 13r
Obsecro te 17v
Hours of the Virgin 24r
Penitential Psalms 83r
Litany and Prayers 94r
Hours of the Cross 99v
Hours of the Holy Spirit 103r
Office of the Dead 106r
15 Joys of the Virgin (in French) 146v
Seven Requests to our Lord (in French) 151v
Suffrages 154v
All Decorations
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.
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
One column of eighteen lines; frame ruled in faint red ink; written area: 92 x 55 mm
Gothic--textualis semiquadrata
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.
Calendar and fols. 146v-154r in French
France
Fourth quarter of the 15th century
Twentieth-century brown calf with tooled panels; edges gilded
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
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
France
Fourth quarter of the 15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Sale by Sotheby's to Maggs
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.
Calendar and fols. 146v-154r in French
Gothic--textualis semiquadrata
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.
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