Book of Hours, Use of Bourges (DS4441) (Q20823)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 87, Lewis E 87)
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Book of Hours, Use of Bourges (DS4441)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 87, Lewis E 87)

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    Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
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    Extent: i+63+i; 167 x 105 mm bound to 177 x 118 mm; parchment
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    Ownership inscription dated 12 July 1544 by Jean Lallemant on the lower pastedown (inside back cover) has been erroneously considered to be of the same date as the manuscript; script and decoration indicate a date of circa 1490-1510 (according to Nicholas Herman, January 2017); at least four leaves, probably with full-page miniatures, have been excised before the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours...
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    Binding: Embroidered and brocade cloth over pasteboards, nineteenth century
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    Layout: One column of twenty-seven lines; frame ruled in faint red ink, some pricking visible; written area: 110 x 62 mm
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    Script: Bâtarde (with humanistic elements)
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    Decoration: Margins of each gold-framed page decorated with two red seraphs and one blue cherub, eleven illuminated initials, red and blue line-endings for the Suffrages, alternating red and blue rubrics and initials throughout
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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), p. 246.
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    Related resource: Bagnoli, Martina, ed., Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2009), p. 31, n. 30.
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    Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Alphonse Labitte on front pastedown; W. C. Crane sale via Anderson Auction Co., New York, December 10, 1912; given to the Free Library of Philadelphia by John Frederick Lewis's widow, Anne Baker Lewis, in 1936; provenance inscriptions on inside back cover
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    Contributor: Caitlin Goodman
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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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