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This Book of Hours was produced in Paris around 1425, and includes fourteen half-page miniatures by an unidentified artist. In addition to its original cycle of miniatures, the book features seven full-page grisaille miniatures by Guillaume (Wilhelm) Vrelant produced around 1470 and inserted into the book at a later date (Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child, fol. 13v; The Visitation, fol. 19v; The Trinity, fol. 24v; Saint Michael Battling a Demon, fol. 37v; The Flight Into Egypt, fol. 46r; Saint Christopher Carrying Christ, fol. 52v; and Saint Bernard, fol. 65v). The manuscript is written in a Gothic semi-quadrata script. Its textual contents consists of a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), Gospel Sequences (fols. 14r-18v), the Obsecro te (fols. 20r-23v) and O intemerata (fols. 25r-29r), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Paris (fols. 30r-102r), the Penitential Pslams, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 103r-121r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 121v-124v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 125r-128r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 128v-176v), as well as the Fifteen Joys of the Virign and the Prayers to the Five Wounds of Christ, in French (fols. 176v-186v). Lastly, it contains notes concerning its earliest known owners, the Morot family of Notre Dame de la Dehours, in Paris, from the late seventeenth century (fols. 187r-v).
Support: Parchment; Extent: iv+187+iv; 193 x 141 mm bound to 200 x 150 mm; Foliation: Modern pagination in pencil, 1-25, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2 (10, +1 +7), 3 (7, +2), 4 (9, +8), 5 (9, +8), 6 (9, +5), 7 (8), 8 (9, +1), 9-11 (8), 12 (6), 13-22 (8), 23 (4); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower center on last verso of each quire, except quires 3 and 11-13
One column of fifteen lines, frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 110 x 68 mm
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Seven full-page miniatures (fols. 13v, 19v, 24v, 37v, 46r, 52v, 65v) by Willem Vrelant, a Flemish artist from Bruges, and dated to circa 1470 have been inserted into the book, probably at a later date; fourteen large miniatures with foliate borders at each major section of text original to the manuscript by an anonymous artist; small decorated initials, line fillers, and vertical foliate panels throughout
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.
Calendar and prayers on fols. 240r-248v in French
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Paris, France
Circa 1425, Circa 1470
Red velvet over pasteboard, gilt edges, circa 1900
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Morot family, parish of Notre Dame de la Dehour (?), circa 1648-60 (family notes on fol. 187r-v); A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia, October 19, 1910; Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia, 1915; given by his children, Josephine Widener Wichfeld and Peter A. B. Widener, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1944, in memory of their father
Paris, France
Circa 1425, Circa 1470
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Morot family, parish of Notre Dame de la Dehour
This Book of Hours was produced in Paris around 1425, and includes fourteen half-page miniatures by an unidentified artist. In addition to its original cycle of miniatures, the book features seven full-page grisaille miniatures by Guillaume (Wilhelm) Vrelant produced around 1470 and inserted into the book at a later date (Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child, fol. 13v; The Visitation, fol. 19v; The Trinity, fol. 24v; Saint Michael Battling a Demon, fol. 37v; The Flight Into Egypt, fol. 46r; Saint Christopher Carrying Christ, fol. 52v; and Saint Bernard, fol. 65v). The manuscript is written in a Gothic semi-quadrata script. Its textual contents consists of a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), Gospel Sequences (fols. 14r-18v), the Obsecro te (fols. 20r-23v) and O intemerata (fols. 25r-29r), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Paris (fols. 30r-102r), the Penitential Pslams, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 103r-121r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 121v-124v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 125r-128r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 128v-176v), as well as the Fifteen Joys of the Virign and the Prayers to the Five Wounds of Christ, in French (fols. 176v-186v). Lastly, it contains notes concerning its earliest known owners, the Morot family of Notre Dame de la Dehours, in Paris, from the late seventeenth century (fols. 187r-v).
Calendar and prayers on fols. 240r-248v in French
Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Seven full-page miniatures (fols. 13v, 19v, 24v, 37v, 46r, 52v, 65v) by Willem Vrelant, a Flemish artist from Bruges, and dated to circa 1470 have been inserted into the book, probably at a later date; fourteen large miniatures with foliate borders at each major section of text original to the manuscript by an anonymous artist; small decorated initials, line fillers, and vertical foliate panels throughout
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.
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.
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