Collection ID: 0030 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours : Use of Toul

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Hodgkinson, Sampson, former owner
• Bosviel, Pierre, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

(SPC) MSS 133
(Philadelphia, United States, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center)

Alternate identifiers

• https://temple-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TULI_ALMA21256383070003811&context=L&vid=TULI&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

Publisher

Special Collections Research Center

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This book of hours was made in northeastern France following the Use of Toul in the Hours of the Virgin and Office of the Dead, with Infancy Cycle miniatures for the Hours of the Virgin. The calendar, brief Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit precede the Hours of the Virgin, with the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Office of the Dead following, along with various prayers in Latin and French. The usual Marian prayer O intemerata and Gospel readings from Matthew, Mark, and Luke are not present. A bifolium in a later hand (circa 1500) from another manuscript with suffrages to Saints Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul (fol. 123r-124r) is at the end of the volume.

Notes

• In Latin, with calendar, most rubrics, and a few accessory texts (fols. 71r-73v, 74r-74v) in Middle French
   
• Nineteenth-century parchment flyleaves
   

Extent

Ii+124+ii; 112 x 75 mm bound to 200 x 145 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation [1-124] in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2-8 (8), 9 (6), 10-15 (8), 16 (2)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century grosgrain morocco over wooden boards, covers decorated with blind-stamped frame; gilt fleurons on covers and spine, edges gilt, probably English (Les Enluminures)

Layout

Written in seventeen long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; written area: 112 x 72 mm

Decoration

Twelve arched miniatures: above five lines of text with three- or four-line initials on burnished gold with full foliate and floral borders of acanthus and ivy leaves (Crucifixion, fol. 13r; Pentecost, fol. 16r; Annunciation, fol. 19r; Visitation, fol. 28v; Nativity, fol. 37v; Annunciation to the shepherds, fol. 42v; Adoration of the Magi, fol. 46r; Presentation in the Temple, fol. 49v; flight into Egypt, fol. 53r; Massacre of the Innocents, fol. 49r; King David praying to God with harp on the ground, fol. 75r; raising of Lazarus, fol. 90r); two-line initials in gold on blue and pink and one-line initials alternating between gold with purple penwork and blue with red penwork throughout; geometric line endings in blue, pink and gold in Litany (fols. 84v-87r)

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sampson Hodgkinson; loaned by him to the National Exhibition of Works of Art held in Leeds in 1868, no. 586 (label from exhibition on last flyleaf); sold at auction at the Hôtel Drouot (Roger Glandaz, auctioneer), 2 June 1933, lot 34 (pencil note, inside lower cover); purchased by "GV" at a sale on 14 December 1967 (pencil note, inside lower cover); formerly owned by Pierre Bosviel (bookplate, inside upper cover); purchased by Temple University from Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2010
   

Genres

• Codices
• Books of hours
• Devotional calendars
• Illuminated manuscripts

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• France
• French
• Miniature
• Private devotional text
• Illustration
• Illumination
• Christian
• Gothic

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 13r — Brief Hours of the Cross
• fol. 16r — Brief Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 19r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Toul
• fol. 63r — Gospel Lesson, John
• fol. 64r — Prayers
• fol. 75r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 90r — Office of the Dead, Use of Toul
• fol. 123r — Suffrages

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Pierre Bosviel
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 4r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 9r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initials KL
• fol. 13r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 13r — Four line Illuminated initial D
• fol. 13r — Illuminated border
• fol. 16r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 16r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 16r — Illuminated border
• fol. 19r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 19r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 19r — Illuminated border
• fol. 28v — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 28v — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 28v — Illuminated border
• fol. 37v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 37v — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 37v — Illuminated border
• fol. 42v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the shepherds
• fol. 42v — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 42v — Illuminated border
• fol. 46r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 46r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 46r — Illuminated border
• fol. 49v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 49v — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 49v — Illuminated border
• fol. 53r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 53r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 53r — Illuminated border
• fol. 59r — Large miniature, Massacre of the Innocents
• fol. 59r — Three line illuminated initial A
• fol. 59r — Illuminated border
• fol. 75r — Large miniature, King David in prayer with harp on the ground
• fol. 75r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 75r — Illuminated border
• fol. 90r — Raising of Lazarus
• fol. 90r — Four line illuminated initial D
• fol. 90r — Illuminated border