summary
Book of Hours, use of Bourges
note (text)
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.
extent
063 ff. (CCLL)i+63+i
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
177
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
118
justification : height (mm)
110
justification : width (mm)
62
note (deco)
margins of each gold-framed page decorated with 3 seraphs in alternating red and blue.11 illuminated initials, red and blue line-endings for the Suffrages, alternating red and blue rubrics and initials throughout.
binding
S. XIX Embroidered and brocade cloth over pasteboards.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1544 (CCLL) To : 1544 (CCLL)
note (history)
Signed by Jean Lallemant: "A Jehan Lalemant fait le xiie de Juillet lan mil cinq cens quarente quatre. Lalemant."
provenance
Jean Lallemant the Younger (d 1548); Alphonse Labitte (armorial bookplate, front pastedown); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia
bibl
De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, II, 2041, no. 93Wolf 1937, 95-96, no. 87De Ricci et Wilson 1935-1937, II, p. 2041 n° 86Wolf 1937, p. 94 n° 87Wolf 1937, no. 87.Clark, Beyond Use. ID Arkindex
9143865d-93d5-47c3-90ab-22f5e804f696
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_87.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
