Book of Hours, use of Bourges (DS4440) (Q20820)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 86, Lewis E 86)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Book of Hours, use of Bourges (DS4440) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 86, Lewis E 86) |
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Minns, Susan B.
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932
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Lewis, Anne Baker
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1495-1505
15. century
16. century
1495Gregorian
1505Gregorian
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Extent: iii+153+ii; 165 x 105 mm bound to 168 x 110 mm; parchment
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Third upper flyleaf is an early or original parchment singleton
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One leaf with the end of Hours of the Cross and the beginning of Hours of the Holy Spirit (and associated large miniature) lacking between fols. 92 and 93; one leaf with the end of the suffrage to Saint Veronica and the beginning of the suffrage to Saint Margaret (and associated small miniature) missing between fols. 149 and 150
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Binding: French, parchment over pasteboard, late nineteenth century, red-lettered spine inscribed: "Heures nouvelles"; red clamshell case
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Layout: One column of eighteen lines, ruled in red ink: written area: 80 x 50 mm
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Script: Bâtarde
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Decoration: Twenty-four marginal calendar vignettes alternating between labors of the months (recto) and signs of the zodiac (verso); one double-page miniature; twelve large miniatures; fifteen quarter-page miniatures; one full-page coat of arms; foliate panel borders with differing designs, birds, and insects on most outer margins
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Related resource: American Art Association, Collection of Miss Susan Minns of Boston, Mass.; Books, Bookplates, Coins, Curios, Prints, Illuminated Manuscripts and Horae Illustrative of "The Dance of Death," to be sold May 2nd and 3rd, 1922 (Greenwich, Conn.: Condé Nast, 1922), lot 417.
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Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2038, no. 79.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 94-95, no. 86.
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Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 16, with illus. on facing page.
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Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 102-103, no. 31.
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Related resource: Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months & Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and The Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 106, 145, 156, 183, 189, 205, 229, 271, 296, 303, 313, 321.
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Related resource: Monier, Katja, "Vision and devotion in Bourges around 1500: an illuminator and his world" (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014), p. 49 n. 233, p. 171, figs. 3.3.42, 4.8.17, 4.8.18.
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Provenance: Coat of arms on fol. 153v, thought to be those of Haland de Sainte Hermine de Vattier, mid-sixteenth century; Susan B. Minns (sold at American Art Association, 2-3 May 1922, lot 417, illus.); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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4 December 2023
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4 December 2023
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