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

Title

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Other related names

• Vrelant, Guillaume, -1481, workshop, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/95823026)
• Clark, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1833-1906, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92041870.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 106
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1538091
• deRicci: 100
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2946

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders, Bruges, Belgium

Summary

This compact Book of Hours opens with a calendar containing Saints associated with Flanders and Northern France, including Saints Amandus and Vedastus (February 6, fol. 2r), Saints Remigius and Bavo (October 1, fol. 10r), Saint Eligius (December 1, fol. 12r) and Saint Nicasius (December 14, fol. 12r). Following the calendar, the book contains the Hours of the Cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit, followed by the Mass of the Virgin, the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome, and the Advent Hours of the Virgin. The Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers are followed by the Office of the Dead. The final sections contain the Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers, the Psalter of Saint Jerome, a Suffrage to Saint Sebastian, and a Mass of the Archangel Raphael for those who travel. A coat-of-arms (azure a siband sinister or, over all a lion rampant sable to sinister), likely belonging to the original owner, is found on fol. 13r. The manuscript contains seventeen full-page miniatures with blank versos, added as singletons but original to the book. Three miniatures were illuminated in the workshop of the Bruges illuminator Guillaume (William) Vrelant (fl. 1449-1481). Vrelant is considered one of the most influential illuminators active in Bruges during the third quarter of the fifteenth century.

Extent

Iii+262+iii; 97 x 70 mm bound to 104 x 77 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (6), 3 (9, +1), 4 (10, +1 +9), 5 (8), 6 (9, +6), 7-8 (8), 9 (9, +5), 10 (8), 11 (10, +2 +9), 12 (9, +5), 13 (10, +2 +8), 14 (9, +8), 15 (9, +7), 16 (10, +9 +10), 17-19 (8), 20 (9, +1), 21-25 (8), 26 (7, +3), 27 (9, +8), 28-29 (8), 30 (8, +1 +8), 31 (11, +3 +10 +11)

Signatures

Cropped horizontal catchwords partially visible at folios: 21v, 39v, 128v, 162v, 179v

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early nineteenth century, English straight-grained black morocco, gold and blind-tooled and stamped with Masonic symbols, spine labeled in gold: "OFFIC. B.M.V."

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, ruled in faint red ink; written area: 53 x 36 mm

Decoration

Seventeen full-page miniatures: Crucifixion (fol. 13v), Pentecost (fol. 22v), Virgin and Child Enthroned (fol. 30v), Annunciation (fol. 45v), Visitation (fol. 69v), Nativity (fol. 83v), Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 90v), Adoration of the Magi (fol. 96v), Presentation in the Temple (fol. 102v), Massacre of the Innocents (fol. 108v), Flight into Egypt (fol. 118v), Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 126v), David in Prayer (fol. 138v), Office of the Dead (fol. 163v), Saint Jerome (fol. 226v), Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (fol. 251v), Archangel Raphael Guiding Tobias (fol. 254v); seventeen five-to-six-line illuminated initials, two-line illuminated initials with foliate sprays and one-line illuminated initials throughout, thirty-four full foliate borders enclosing miniatures and facing text, some inhabited

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Clarence H. Clark (sale, Philadelphia, 1909, I, no. 182); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; On the second front flyleaf, a note is pasted in: "Sale of Clarence H. Clark, no. 182." The description of this item for sale is pasted onto the reverse; Unidentified coat of arms – a blue shield with silver lion rampant and gold diagonal – appears on the bottom of fol. 14r
   

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 14r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 23r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 31r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 46r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 126v — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 127r — Hours of the Virgin for Advent
• fol. 138v — Large miniature, King David in Prayer
• fol. 139r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayer
• fol. 163v — Large miniature, Funeral scene
• fol. 164r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 217r — Prayers to the Virgin, Obsecro te and O intemerata
• fol. 227r — Psalter of Saint Jerome
• fol. 252r — Suffrage to Saint Sebastian
• fol. 255r — Mass of the Archangel Raphael

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookplate with page and volume count
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Bookplate, Clarence H. Clark with J.F. Lewis stamp
• fol. 13v — Full-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 13v — Full foliate border
• fol. 13v — Marginal figure, Angel with instruments of the passion
• fol. 14r — Full foliate border
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 14r — Coat-of-Arms
• fol. 22v — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 22v — Full foliate border
• fol. 22v — Marginal figure, saint in prayer
• fol. 23r — Full foliate border
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 30v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child enthroned
• fol. 30v — Full foliate border
• fol. 31r — Full foliate border
• fol. 31r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 45v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 45v — Full foliate border
• fol. 45v — Marginal figure, angel
• fol. 46r — Full foliate border
• fol. 46r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 69v — Full-page miniature, Visitation
• fol. 69v — Full foliate border
• fol. 70r — Full foliate border
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 83v — Full-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 83v — Full foliate border
• fol. 84r — Full foliate border
• fol. 84r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 90v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 90v — Full foliate border
• fol. 90v — Marginal figure, Drollery
• fol. 91r — Full foliate border
• fol. 91r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 96v — Full-page miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 96v — Full foliate border
• fol. 96v — Marginal figure, Monkey
• fol. 97r — Full foliate border
• fol. 97r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 102v — Full-page miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 102v — Full foliate border
• fol. 102v — Marginal figure, monkey
• fol. 103r — Full foliate border
• fol. 103r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 108v — Full-page miniature, Massacre of the Innocents
• fol. 108v — Full foliate border
• fol. 109r — Full foliate border
• fol. 109r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 118v — Full-page miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 118v — Full foliate border
• fol. 118v — Marginal figure, monkey
• fol. 119r — Full foliate border
• fol. 119r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 126v — Full foliate border
• fol. 126v — Marginal figure, angel
• fol. 127r — Full foliate border
• fol. 127r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 138v — Full foliate border
• fol. 138v — Marginal figure, Drollery
• fol. 139r — Full foliate border
• fol. 139r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 139r — Marginal figure, monkey
• fol. 163v — Full foliate border
• fol. 164r — Full foliate border
• fol. 164r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 217r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 221v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 226v — Large miniature, Saint Jerome
• fol. 226v — Full foliate border
• fol. 227r — Full foliate border
• fol. 227r — Illuminated initial V
• fol. 251v — Large miniature, Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
• fol. 251v — Full foliate border
• fol. 252r — Full foliate border
• fol. 252r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 254v — Large miniature, Archangel Raphael Guiding Tobias
• fol. 254v — Full foliate border
• fol. 255r — Full foliate border
• fol. 255r — Illuminated initial D
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookplate with page and volume count
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Bookplate, Clarence H. Clark with J.F. Lewis stamp