textLang
French (FR, FRE)Latin (LA, LAT)
summary
Book of Hours, use of Rouen
note (text)
This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century illuminated book of hours, probably produced in Rouen. It is written in bâtarde and decorated with large miniatures with three-quarter borders at the hour divisions, including one with a generic female owner portrait (fol. 87r). Two full-page miniatures of the temptation of Adam and Eve and the Annunciation are by a different artist (fols. 22v-23r). Beginning with a French calendar and concluding with French prayers, it also has a French hymn and table of contents added to the end of the volume later, probably in the eighteenth century.
extent
090 ff. (CCLL)ii+95+ii
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
171
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
115
justification : height (mm)
104
justification : width (mm)
63
note (deco)
2 full-page miniatures (on facing pages), 12 ¾-page miniatures.floral borders, illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout.
binding
Contemporary brown calf; gilt tooled decoration; stamped in gold on top cover: "IACQVELINE" and on the lower cover "DV PRE"; rebacked.
origDate : proposed date
late 15th century, with 18th-century additions
note (history)
Bookplate of Alfred Trapnell on inside front cover; bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on first flyleaf.
provenance
Jacqueline Du Pré (s.XV#^ex^ - s.XVI#^ex^); Alfred Trapnell, sold 1910; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia.
ID Arkindex
e673d609-851a-47b4-8fbb-cdbbfd4a677b
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_123.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
