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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Other related names

• Gratz, Simon, 1840-1925, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99029010.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 208
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1606297
• deRicciSup: 19

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This Book of Hours of the Use of Paris was written for masculine use. It contains a calendar; the Gospel Lessons, the Obsecro te and O intemerata prayers; the Hours of the Virgin; the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and associated prayers; the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit; the Office of the Dead; and the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and Seven Requests of Our Lord, in French. The texts are accompanied by eight miniatures, including a miniature of the Pentecost on folio 104r which, along with the text on that folio, is a modern reproduction intended to replace a missing leaf.

Notes

• Pencil notes on front pastedown: "Hours for Paris use, ca. 1470, written for use by a man," and "over 380 in./280 pages of illuminated letters/8 full-page miniatures/10 [full-page] borders"; stamped "Gift of Simon Gratz, ESQ., November 1925" in inner margin of fol. 2r; faint pencil notes on upper pastedown and facing flyleaf read "lhupin" (?)
   

Extent

Iii+165+i; 200 x 130 mm bound to 208 x 142 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (8), 3 (5, +1), 4-12 (8), 13 (10, +4, leaf in position 7 has been replaced), 14-20 (8), 21 (2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Cropped remnants of catchwords on lower right hand corners at folios: 41v, 49v, 57v, 89v, 97v, 107v, 115v, 123v, 131v, 139v, 155v

Binding

Twentieth-century brown Morocco over wooden boards; gilt-tooled decoration; vellum pastedowns and flyleaves; gilt edges

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 101 x 64 mm

Decoration

Eight large miniatures, some of which appear to be retouched, with full borders: 13r, Saint John on Patmos; 26r, Annunciation; 82r, King David in Prayer; 100r, Crucifixion; 104r, Pentecost; 107v, Burial; 156r, Virgin and Child with Angels; 162v, The Trinity; red, blue, and gold decorated initials throughout and line filler throughout; folio 104 was inserted to replace a missing or damaged page; on this folio, the text and image were produced by a modern hand in the 19th or early 20th century, in imitation of the original

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Simon Gratz, presented by him to the Free Library in 1925
   

Related resources

• Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 451, no. 19.

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 13r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 19r — Obsecro te
• fol. 23r — O Intemerata
• fol. 26r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris
• fol. 82r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 100r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 104r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 107v — Office of the Dead
• fol. 156r — The Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 162v — The Seven Requests of Our Lord, in French

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations in pencil
• fol. 2r — Stamped "Gift of Simon Gratz, ESQ., November 1925"
• fol. 13r — Large miniature, Saint John on Patmos
• fol. 13r — Foliate border
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 19r — Four line Illuminated initial O
• fol. 19r — Foliate border
• fol. 23r — Three line illuminated initial O
• fol. 23r — Foliate border
• fol. 26r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 26r — Foliate border
• fol. 26r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 37v — Four line Illuminated initial D
• fol. 37v — Foliate border
• fol. 49v — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 49v — Foliate border
• fol. 55v — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 55v — Foliate border
• fol. 60r — Three line Illuminated initial D
• fol. 60r — Foliate border
• fol. 64v — Three line Illuminated initial D
• fol. 64v — Foliate border
• fol. 69r — Three line Illuminated initial D
• fol. 69r — Foliate border
• fol. 76v — Three line Illuminated initial C
• fol. 76v — Foliate border
• fol. 82r — Large miniature, King David in prayer
• fol. 82r — Foliate border
• fol. 82r — Three line Illuminated initial D
• fol. 100r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 100r — Foliate border
• fol. 100r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 104r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 104r — Foliate border
• fol. 104r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 107v — Large miniature, Burial
• fol. 107v — Foliate border
• fol. 107v — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 156r — Large miniature, Virgin and Child with Angels
• fol. 156r — Foliate border
• fol. 156r — Three line illuminated initial D
• fol. 162v — Large miniature, Trinity
• fol. 162v — Foliate border
• fol. 162v — Three line illuminated initial D