textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
summary
Book of Hours, use of Rouen
note (text)
This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, with its calendar and some rubrics in French. It is written in batârde and has eleven large miniatures with largely gold monumental borders, including one of a male owner kneeling before Saint Barbara, and one small miniature, but several missing leaves probably also had miniatures. The text pages do not have borders, but do have relatively ornate two-line initials and alternating one-line initials of gold on red or blue.
extent
098 ff. (CCLL)iii+98+iii
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
152
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
100
justification : height (mm)
95
justification : width (mm)
58
note (deco)
11 full-page miniatures, 1 quarter-page miniatureIlluminated initials and line-endings throughout.
binding
Original stamped leather over wooden boards, a panel on the top cover showing St. Romanus and on the lower cover a panel depicting Ecce Homo. Probably executed at Rouen in s. XVex.
origDate : proposed date
Last quarter 15th century with owner inscriptions dated 1549-1582
note (history)
Notes written by Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen, who entered the births, baptisms, and godparents of her 11 daughters and 4 sons from 24 December 1549 to 24 February 1582.
provenance
Margaret Le Seigneur, née Fillatre, of Rouen (s.XVI); George Dunn, of Woolley Hall, sold 1914; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia.
ID Arkindex
dc879a06-d962-4559-8c11-e1a9f28c58db
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_124.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
