Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Other related names

• Gold Scrolls Group (active c. 1415-1455), artist (https://viaf.org/viaf/133597966)
• Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50045918.html)
• Burdett-Coutts, William, 1851-1921, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22William%20Burdett%20Coutts%2C%201851-1921%22&sortKeys=holdingscount&recordSchema=BriefVIAF)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 99
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560475
• deRicci: 66
• Leaves-of-gold: 27
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2940

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Bruges, Belgium

Summary

This Flemish Book of Hours of the Use of Rome, likely created in Bruges in the 1430s, contains fourteen full-page miniatures that can be attributed to the Gold Scrolls group of illuminators. Each of the miniatures is on the verso side of an inserted folio, facing the first page of the relevant text. The book begins with a six-folio, unillustrated calendar. The first section, introduced by a miniature of the Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion (fol. 7v), consists of the Hours of the Cross. The Hours of the Holy Spirit, which follows, begins with a miniature of the Pentecost (fol. 12v). The next section consists of the Mass of the Virgin followed directly by the Gospel Lessons. This section is introduced by an image of the Virgin and Child surrounded by a circular brick bench (fol. 16v). The Hours of the Virgin opens with a miniature of the Annunciation for Matins (fol. 24v), but the miniatures for subsequent hours narrate the Passion of Christ: the Betrayal of Christ (fol. 38v); Christ before Pilate (fol. 47v); the Flagellation (fol. 51v); the Carrying of the Cross (fol. 55v); the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and Saint John (fol. 59v); the Deposition (fol. 63v); and the Entombment (fol. 69v). The Hours of the Virgin for Advent follow, introduced by a miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 74v). The Seven Penitential Psalms open with a miniature of the Last Judgment (fol. 81v), while the Office of the Dead begins with a depiction of a funeral scene (fol. 95v). The pall in the latter miniature is decorated with two escutcheons which may represent fictive coats-of-arms, rather than those belonging to the original user. The Office of the Dead is followed by the unillustrated Obsecro te, O intemerata, and Stabat mater prayers. The final three quires are blank but ruled, comprising 24 leaves in total.

Notes

• Angel's scroll in the miniature of the Annunciation, fol. 24v, reads: "Ave gratia plena dominus tecum"
   

Extent

I+154+i; 204 x 141 mm bound to 213 x 150 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; folios 130-end are unfoliated

Collation

1 (6), 2 (11, +1 +6 +10), 3 (9, +7), 4 (8), 5 (9, +4), 6 (10, +4 +8), 7 (11, +2 +6 +10), 8 (9, +5), 9 (7, +1), 10 (9, +1), 11 (9, +6), 12-18 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late-fifteenth-century, possibly Venetian, brown morocco, blind-tooled, gilt gauffered edges, traces of original hinges; slipcase with "LIVRE D'HEURES, ILLUMINATED M.S., ON VELLUM, ABOUT 1450, (ITALIAN BINDING, 1470)" stamped in gold on spine

Layout

One column of twenty lines, red ink ruling (prickings visible); the last twenty-four leaves are ruled but left blank; written area: 112 x 76 mm

Decoration

Fourteen full-page miniatures with foliate (rinceaux type) borders; fourteen six-line illuminated initials; three three-line illuminated initials, and one-to-two-line illuminated initials, line fillers, and foliate borders on nearly every page

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), London; her husband, Right Hon. William Burdett-Coutts, M.P. (1851-1921); his sale, Sotheby's, London, May 15-17, 1922, lot 274; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; two unidentified coats of arms on an altar-cloth on fol. 95v
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2036, no. 66.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Library, 1937), p. 108, no. 99.
• James Douglas Farquhar, "Manuscript Production and Evidence for Localizing and Dating Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours: Walters Ms. 239," The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 45 (1987), p. 56, note 42.
• Lilian M.C. Randall et al., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press in association with The Walters Art Gallery, 1997), p. 162.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 94-96, no. 27; p. 118, n. 4.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2940/)

Keywords

• 15th century
• Flemish
• Flanders
• Book of Hours
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Illumination
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 8r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 17r — Mass of the Virgin followed by Gospel Lessons
• fol. 25r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 75r — Hours of the Virgin to be recited during Advent
• fol. 82r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 96r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 124v — Obsecro te
• fol. 127r — O intemerata followed by Stabat mater

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry
• fol. 7v — Full-page miniature, Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion
• fol. 7v — Full foliate border
• fol. 8r — Full foliate border
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 12v — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 12v — Full foliate border
• fol. 13r — Full foliate border
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 16v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 16v — Full foliate border
• fol. 17r — Full foliate border
• fol. 17r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 24v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 24v — Full foliate border
• fol. 25r — Full foliate border
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 38v — Full-page miniature, Betrayal of Christ
• fol. 38v — Full foliate border
• fol. 39r — Full foliate border
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 47v — Full-page miniature, Christ before Pilate
• fol. 47v — Full foliate border
• fol. 48r — Full foliate border
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 51v — Full-page miniature, Flagellation
• fol. 51v — Full foliate border
• fol. 52r — Full foliate border
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 55v — Full-page miniature, Christ Carrying the Cross
• fol. 55v — Full foliate border
• fol. 56r — Full foliate border
• fol. 56r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 59v — Full-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 59v — Full foliate border
• fol. 60r — Full foliate border
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 63v — Full-page miniature, Deposition
• fol. 63v — Full foliate border
• fol. 64r — Full foliate border
• fol. 64r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 69v — Full-page miniature, Entombment
• fol. 69v — Full foliate border
• fol. 70r — Full foliate border
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 74v — Full-page miniature, Coronation of the Virgin Mary
• fol. 74v — Full foliate border
• fol. 75r — Full foliate border
• fol. 75r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 81v — Full-page miniature, Last Judgment
• fol. 81v — Full foliate border
• fol. 82r — Full foliate border
• fol. 82r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 95v — Full-page miniature, Funeral Scene
• fol. 95v — Full foliate border
• fol. 95v — Two unidentified coats of arms on pall
• fol. 96r — Full foliate border
• fol. 96r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 124v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 127r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 128v — Illuminated initial S