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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Chartres

Other related names

• F. Woodson Hancock, Mrs., former owner
• Lea Hudson, Mrs., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1949‑83‑1
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 27

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Tours?, France

Summary

This Book of Hours for the Use of Chartres was made in the Loire Valley (perhaps Tours, as indicated by the miniatures in the style of Jean Bourdichon) around 1500. The presence of saints local to Chartres (e.g. Cheron, Aignan, and Lubin) in the calendar, along with the dedication of Notre Dame de Chartres on 17 October, suggests intended use in that city, while the distinctive style of the miniatures indicates production in the Loire Valley. It contains a calendar in French, lacking August and December (between fols. 7-8 and 10-11); the Hours of the Cross, lacking its ending (fol. 11v); the Hours of the Virgin, lacking its beginning and at least five other folios presumably excised for their miniatures (fols. 12r-49v); the Penitential Psalms followed by the Litany and associated prayers (fols. 50v-61v); Gospel Lessons from John only (fols. 62r-64v); and the Office for the Dead (fols. 65r-85v). The large bas-de-page vignettes with the Labours of the Months appear to have been inserted in preference to the small miniatures of the same subjects originally planned for frames within the panel borders on each verso within the calendar. In addition to those ten, the manuscript contains seven other miniatures which show the Crucifixion (fol. 11r), Pentecost (fol. 25r), the Nativity (fol. 26r), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 31r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 45r), King David Praying (fol. 50r), and a funeral scene (fol. 65r). Leaves have been excised from between folios 11-12, 18-19, 34-35, 37-38, and 40-41. These were undoubtedly decorated with large or full-page miniatures for each of the Hours of the Virgin, and likely showed the Annunciation, Visitation, and the Adoration of the Magi among other subjects.

Notes

• Paper flyleaves, probably contemporary with nineteenth-century binding
   
• Calendar in French
   
• Repairs to parchment of first five folios
   
• Change in scribal hand from fol. 65r
   

Extent

Iii+86+iii; 193 x 125 mm bound to 203 x 135 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10, +1 +5), 2 (8), 3 (7, -1 +1), 4 (8), 5-6 (6), 7 (5, +1), 8 (8), 9 (4), 10 (3, +1), 11 (8), 12 (10), 13 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, in lower margin at fols. 32v, 38v, 45v, 57v, 72v, 82v, 83v

Binding

Nineteenth-century leather, possibly English, with marbled endpapers; gilt-tooled

Layout

One column of twenty-one lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; written area: 110 x 62 mm

Decoration

Red, blue, and gold line fillers and initials throughout; partial foliate panel borders on most pages, some with birds or animal hybrids; ten large and ten small border vignettes in the calendar; one large miniature and six full-page miniatures with full foliate panel borders

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Bernard Quaritch, London, 1877 (catalogue clipping on recto of second upper flyleaf; also found in Quaritch catalogue of 1880); gift to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock and Mrs. Lea Hudson in memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Lea, 1949
   

Related resources

• Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts from the IXth Century (London: Quaritch, July 1877), pp. 26-27, no. 63.
• Bernard Quaritch, A List of Valuable Old Books in all Departments of English and Foreign Literature (London: Quaritch, 1880), p. 44, no. 69.

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• French
• France
• Devotion
• Miniature

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 11v — Hours of the Cross (ending lacking)
• fol. 12r — Hours of the Virgin (beginning lacking)
• fol. 50v — Penitential Psalms, followed by Litany and prayers
• fol. 62r — Lessons from the Gospel of John
• fol. 65r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Printed catalogue entry
• fol. 1r — Bas-de-page vignette, Feasting
• fol. 1r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Aquarius
• fol. 2r — Bas-de-page vignette, Keeping warm
• fol. 2r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Pisces
• fol. 3r — Bas-de-page vignette, Pruning vines
• fol. 3r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Aries
• fol. 4r — Bas-de-page vignette, Picking flowers
• fol. 4r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Taurus
• fol. 5r — Bas-de-page vignette, Lovers
• fol. 5r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Gemini
• fol. 6r — Bas-de-page vignette, Agricultural workers
• fol. 6r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Cancer
• fol. 7r — Bas-de-page vignette, Reaping
• fol. 7r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Leo
• fol. 8r — Bas-de-page vignette, Pressing grapes
• fol. 8r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Libra
• fol. 9r — Bas-de-page vignette, Sowing
• fol. 9r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Scorpio
• fol. 10r — Bas-de-page vignette, Hunting boar
• fol. 10r — Foliate panel border with vignette, Sagittarius
• fol. 11r — Full-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 11r — Full foliate panel border
• fol. 11v — Partial folate panel border with falcon wearing hood
• fol. 13r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 13v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 14r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 14v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 17r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 17v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 19r — Foliate panel border with snail
• fol. 19v — Foliate panel border with snail
• fol. 22r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 22v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 23r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 23v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 25r — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 25r — Full foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 25v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 26r — Full-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 26r — Full foliate panel border
• fol. 26v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 27r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 27v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 28r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 28v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 31r — Full-page miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 31r — Full foliate panel border
• fol. 31v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 33r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 33v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 34r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 34v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 40r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 40v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 41r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 41v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 45r — Full-page miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 45r — Full foliate panel border
• fol. 45v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 48r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 48v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 50r — Full-page miniature, King David and Bathsheba
• fol. 50r — Full foliate panel border
• fol. 50v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 54r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 54v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 56r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 56v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 60r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 60v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 61r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 61v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 63r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 63v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 64r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 64v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 65r — Large miniature, Funeral
• fol. 65r — Foliate panel border on three sides with bird
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 68r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 68v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 70r — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 70v — Foliate panel border with animal hybrid
• fol. 75r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 75v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 78r — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 78v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 83v — Foliate panel border with bird
• fol. 84r — Foliate panel border with bird
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Printed catalogue entry