(Q20961)

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Book of Hours, Use of Troyes
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Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
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Extent: iii+160+iii; 185 x 130 mm bound to 190 x 136 mm; parchment
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Excised folios between fols. 25 and 26 (removed prior to pagination, note in an eighteenth-century hand on fol. 26r: "Hic evidens . . . pravè . . . truncatum instium offici de sancto spiritu"), fols. 29 and 30, and fols. 150 and 151 (removed after pagination); excised folios possibly contained miniatures: Pentecost at the beginning of the Hours of the Holy Spirit, and Annunciation at Matins of...
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Corrections to and identifications of text written in margins throughout in an eighteenth-century (?) hand
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Contents listed in French on slip of paper attached to parchment flyleaf, written in same hand as the paginator
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Binding: French calf, gold-tooled fanfare binding in the style of Clovis Eve, lettered "Guillemette" (upper cover) and "Bezard" (lower cover), late-sixteenth century
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Layout: One column of fifteen lines, frame ruled in red ink; written area: 102 x 64 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis
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Decoration: Five half-page miniatures with inhabited foliate borders, seven four-line illuminated and decorated initials, illuminated initials with foliate sprays and line endings 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. 2035, no. 62.
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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. 147-148, no. 133.
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Related resource: Plummer, John, with Gregory Clark, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; London: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 60.
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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. 76 n. 5, 120 n. 3.
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Related resource: Reinburg, Virginia, French books of hours: making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 76-77.
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Provenance: Guillemette Bezard, sixteenth century; given to a priest of Saint Jacques du Marché, Paris, in 1745; René Antoine (Renati Antonii) Thoué, Paris, 1756; nos. 108 and 42 in two old French libraries; Frederick Locker (sold 1905); E.D. Church (sold to Dodd, Mead & Co.); purchased by John Frederick Lewis, from A. S. W. Rosenbach (1910); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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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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