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This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Book of Hours for the use of Paris that exemplifies the artistic exchanges between France and Italy that occurred in that period. While it was likely written in Paris in a Gothic bookhand in the early fifteenth century, it was illuminated in Naples later in the fifteenth century by both Cristoforo Majorana and another illuminator working in the style of the Master of the della Rovere Missals (fols. 81r, 99v, 103v, and 107v). Its miniatures feature a combination of lavishly illuminated all'antica architectural borders and panel borders with marginal drawings, while its text is written in blue ink and gold leaf, complete with illuminated initials, green and red line fillers, and foliate sprays throughout.
Support: Parchment; Extent: vi+243+vi; 204 x 140 mm bound to 210 x 155 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12), 2 (8, -1), 3-8 (8), 9 (8, -8), 10 (6), 11-23 (8), 24 (8, -3), 25 (8, -1 -8), 26 (8, -3), 27-30 (8), 31 (6); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower center verso, except quires 9 and 22-25
One column of fourteen lines, ruled in red ink; text written in blue ink and gold leaf; written area: 98 x 60 mm
Gothic--textualis
Sixteen large miniatures with full borders, some inhabited; eleven four-line illuminated initials with foliate spray, fifteen three-line illuminated initials (six with foliate spray extensions, nine without); two-line illuminated initials with foliate spray extensions, one-line illuminated initials without extensions, and line endings throughout; spaces for initials in Calendar left unfilled; space for coat of arms on fol. 153r left blank; two leaves missing that may have contained miniatures, between fols. 12-13, fols. 175-176, and fols. 180-181
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.
Spine is separating from text block; many folios are coming loose
Illuminated in Naples, Italy; text written in France
Faint, mostly illegible inscription in upper margin on fol. 1r in nineteenth-century italic script; same hand appears again on fol. 12v-13r where it fills in missing opening text of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin
One leaf with a miniature missing between fols. 186 and 187
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.
Naples, Italy
Late 15th century
Red morocco with gilt edges, spine labeled "HEURES"; early-nineteenth century
Latin
Howel Wills (1854?-1901), Florence, under shelfmark. A.III.70; his sale, Sotheby's, 11 July 1894, no. 1417; bookplate of Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923), Philadelphia; Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia (ex-libris inside front cover); 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
Naples, Italy
Late 15th century
Latin
Howel Wills
This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Book of Hours for the use of Paris that exemplifies the artistic exchanges between France and Italy that occurred in that period. While it was likely written in Paris in a Gothic bookhand in the early fifteenth century, it was illuminated in Naples later in the fifteenth century by both Cristoforo Majorana and another illuminator working in the style of the Master of the della Rovere Missals (fols. 81r, 99v, 103v, and 107v). Its miniatures feature a combination of lavishly illuminated all'antica architectural borders and panel borders with marginal drawings, while its text is written in blue ink and gold leaf, complete with illuminated initials, green and red line fillers, and foliate sprays throughout.
Spine is separating from text block; many folios are coming loose
Illuminated in Naples, Italy; text written in France
Faint, mostly illegible inscription in upper margin on fol. 1r in nineteenth-century italic script; same hand appears again on fol. 12v-13r where it fills in missing opening text of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin
One leaf with a miniature missing between fols. 186 and 187
Gothic--textualis
Sixteen large miniatures with full borders, some inhabited; eleven four-line illuminated initials with foliate spray, fifteen three-line illuminated initials (six with foliate spray extensions, nine without); two-line illuminated initials with foliate spray extensions, one-line illuminated initials without extensions, and line endings throughout; spaces for initials in Calendar left unfilled; space for coat of arms on fol. 153r left blank; two leaves missing that may have contained miniatures, between fols. 12-13, fols. 175-176, and fols. 180-181
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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