Collection ID: 0031 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours for Paris Use

Other related names

• Circle of the Boucicaut Master, French (active Paris), c. 1390 - 1430, artist (https://viaf.org/viaf/1524070)
• Gille François Mangan, former owner
• Knight, Montagu George, 1844-1914, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/19287242)
• Collins, Philip S., former owner
• Mary Schell Collins, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1945‑65‑12
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Philip S. Collins Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/200786.html
• deRicci: 16
• Calkins: 106

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is a Book of Hours made for the Use of Paris, containing a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), lessons from the Gospels (fols. 13r-18v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 19r-72v), the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and prayers (fols. 73r-92r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92v-95v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 96r-98r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 98v-127v), prayers including Obsecto te and O intemerata and suffrages (fols. 127v-142v), the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 143r-148r), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord in French (fols. 148v-151r). Large miniatures mark most of the divisions between and within these texts. Their subjects are the Annunciation (fol. 19r), the Visitation (fol. 40v), the Nativity (50v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 55v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 59r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 62v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 66r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 69r), King David in Prayer (fol. 73r), the Crucifixion (fol. 92v), Pentecost (fol. 96r), a funeral (fol. 98v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 143r), and the risen Christ seated on a rainbow (fol. 148v). These miniatures are surrounded by partial bar borders and full ivy leaf borders, or foliate borders as on fols. 19r and 73r. Partial ivy leaf borders also spring from decorated initials throughout the manuscript. The style and certain features of the miniatures suggest an artist working in the circle of the Boucicaut Master, who was active in Paris in the first decades of the fifteenth century.

Notes

• Erasure in last line of fol. 134v to correct erroneous rubric
   

Extent

Iii+152+iii; 164 x 120 mm bound to 177 x 132 mm

Foliation

Foliated in modern pencil, top right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (10), 3-8 (8), 9 (6), 10-19 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Black morocco, gilt edges, seventeenth- or eighteenth-century, possibly Dutch or German; modern red slipcase and clamshell box "Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis cum Calendario ad usum Quimper c. 1450"

Layout

One column of sixteen lines, frame ruled in red plummet; written area: 106 x 62 mm

Decoration

Capitals in red, blue, and burnished gold with marginal floral sprays issuing from the more important initials; fourteen large miniatures with borders of ivy leaf pattern or scroll work

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Gille François Mangan (ownership inscription on fol. 152v: "Ce Livre appartien à Gille François Mangan, 1536"); Montagu George Knight of Chawton (bookplate on inside front cover); Maggs Bros., London (Books on Art and Allied Subjects, 1923, p. 257, no. 1125; unidentified catalogue clipping with similar text in front of first upper flyleaf); Philip S. Collins; Mary Schell Collins
   

Related resources

• Zigrosser, Carl, "The Philip S. Collins Collection of Mediaeval Illuminated Manuscripts," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 58, no. 275 (Autumn 1962): p. 22 (article pp. 3-34).
• Robert G. Calkins, "A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century" (1968), cat. 106, pp. 179-179
• Beyond Use: A Digital Database of Variant Readings in Late Medieval Books of Hours (https://web.archive.org/web/20180829140524/http://www6.sewanee.edu/beyonduse/details.php?mssby=Alphabetical&manuscript=PhilaMAms1945-65-12+%28JP+195%29)

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Christian
• French
• Illumination
• Illustration
• Miniature
• France
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 13r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 18r — Seven Verses of Saint Bernard
• fol. 19r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris
• fol. 73r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 92v — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 96r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 98v — Office of the Dead, followed by prayers including Obsecro te and O intemerata, and suffrages
• fol. 143r — Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 148v — Seven requests to Our Lord, in French

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Montagu George Knight
• Catalog clipping recto — Print catalog clipping (likely Maggs Bros.)
• Catalog clipping verso — Print catalog clipping (likely Maggs Bros.)
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• fol. 19r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 19r — Full foliate border
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 40v — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 40v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 40v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 50v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 50v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 50v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 55v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 55v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 55v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 59r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 59r — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 59r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 62v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 62v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 62v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 66r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 66r — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 69r — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 69r — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 69r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 73r — Large miniature, King David praying
• fol. 73r — Full foliate border
• fol. 73r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 92v — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 92v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 92v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 96r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 96r — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 96r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 98v — Large miniature, Funeral scene
• fol. 98v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 98v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 127v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 131r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 143r — Large miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 143r — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 143r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 148v — Large miniature, Christ seated on a rainbow showing his wounds
• fol. 148v — Bar borders on three sides, full ivy leaf border
• fol. 148v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 152v — Ownership note, Gille François Mangan, 1536(?)
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins