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Book of Hours, Use of Paris (Horae Baetae Virginis cum calendario) 1967‑30‑122
Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

This Book of Hours was made in Paris around the year 1470 and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480). It contains a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v); Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-19v); Obescro te and O intemerata (fols. 19v-27v); the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris (fols. 29r-102v); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 103r-112r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 112v-119v); the Penitential Psalms followed by a litany and prayers (fols. 121r-138v); the Office of the Dead, lacking its beginning and presumably a miniature (fols. 139r-189r); the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 189v-195v), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord followed by various prayers and suffrages in both French and Latin, including a prayer ("A Royne qui fustes mise et assise...") attributed to Guillaume Alexis (fols. 196r-217v). The Gospel Lessons are decorated with a large miniature of Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 13r), and small miniatures of the other three evangelists (fols. 15r, 16v, and 18v). The remaining twelve large miniatures show the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Visitation (fol. 55v), the Nativity (fol. 69v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 74r), the Adoration of the Magi (fols. 79r), the Presentation in the Temple (fols. 84r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 89r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 96v), the Crucifixion (fol. 103r), Pentecost (fol. 112v), King David in Prayer (fol. 121r), and the Trinity (fol. 196r).

Physical Description

Support: Parchment; Extent: i+217+i; 162 x 118 mm bound to 172 x 130 mm; Foliation: Foliated, pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2-14 (8), 15 (12), 16 (8), 17 (8, -3), 18-26 (8), 27 (2); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords, contemporary ink, lower right verso: 20v, 36v, 44v, 52v, 60v, 68v, 76v, 84v, 92v, 100v, 108v, 116v, 128v, 136v, 143v, 151v, 159v, 167v, 175v, 183v, 191v

Layout

Single column of eighteen lines; frame ruled; written area: 77 x 46 mm

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Decoration

Red, blue, and gold initials and line-fillers throughout; partial bar borders and partial spray borders on almost every page; three small miniatures with three-quarter spray borders; thirteen large miniatures with full spray borders

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Prayer beginning "O Royne qui fustes mise et assise..." on fols. 212r-217v attributed to Guillaume Alexis

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Keywords
Book of Hours
15th century
Christian
French
France
Illumination
Illustration
Miniature
Devotion
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Place of Origin

Paris, France

Date

Circa 1470

Binding

Black morocco, gilt edges, eighteenth century; clasps; in a faded green twentieth-century slipcase; stamped on spine "LIVRE D'HEURES FRANÇAIS, SÆC XV, S. S. WHITE III"

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Provenance

Henry White (Sotheby's, London, 21 April 1902, lot 1121); George H. Earle Jr.; White Collection

return to search Book of Hours, Use of Paris (Horae Baetae Virginis cum calendario) 1967‑30‑122

Place of Origin

Paris, France

Date

Circa 1470

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Provenance

Henry White

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

This Book of Hours was made in Paris around the year 1470 and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480). It contains a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v); Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-19v); Obescro te and O intemerata (fols. 19v-27v); the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris (fols. 29r-102v); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 103r-112r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 112v-119v); the Penitential Psalms followed by a litany and prayers (fols. 121r-138v); the Office of the Dead, lacking its beginning and presumably a miniature (fols. 139r-189r); the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 189v-195v), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord followed by various prayers and suffrages in both French and Latin, including a prayer ("A Royne qui fustes mise et assise...") attributed to Guillaume Alexis (fols. 196r-217v). The Gospel Lessons are decorated with a large miniature of Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 13r), and small miniatures of the other three evangelists (fols. 15r, 16v, and 18v). The remaining twelve large miniatures show the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Visitation (fol. 55v), the Nativity (fol. 69v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 74r), the Adoration of the Magi (fols. 79r), the Presentation in the Temple (fols. 84r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 89r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 96v), the Crucifixion (fol. 103r), Pentecost (fol. 112v), King David in Prayer (fol. 121r), and the Trinity (fol. 196r).

Notes

Prayer beginning "O Royne qui fustes mise et assise..." on fols. 212r-217v attributed to Guillaume Alexis

Script note

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Decoration Note

Red, blue, and gold initials and line-fillers throughout; partial bar borders and partial spray borders on almost every page; three small miniatures with three-quarter spray borders; thirteen large miniatures with full spray borders

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Book of Hours
15th century
Christian
French
France
Illustration
Miniature
Devotion
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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