(Q20931)

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Book of Hours, Use of Rouen
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Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); French
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Extent: ii+95+ii; 171 x 120 mm bound to 180 x 123 mm; parchment
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Latin with calendar and prayers in French
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One leaf missing between fols. 58 and 59, based on gap in earlier pagination; missing page would have been the beginning of the Penitential Psalms
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Binding: Contemporary brown calf; gilt tooled decoration; IACQVELINE stamped in gold on upper cover, DV PRE on lower cover; rebacked
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Layout: One column of twenty-three lines, with an outer column for the floral border, the same height as the written area; ruled in red ink; written area: 104 x 63 mm
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Script: Bâtarde with eighteenth-century additions (fols. 94v-95v)
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Decoration: Two full-page miniatures (on facing pages); twelve three-quarter-page miniatures; floral borders on outer vertical margins, illuminated initials, and line-fillers throughout
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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. 2037, no. 72.
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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), pp. 136-137, no. 123.
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Provenance: Jacqueline Du Pré (late fifteenth-early sixteenth century); Alfred Trapnell, sold 1910; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; the name "IACQVELINE" stamped on the upper cover and "DV PRE" on the lower; bookplate of Alfred Trapnell on inside front cover; bookplate of John Frederick Lewis on first...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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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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