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

Title

Book of Hours, use of Rome

Other related names

• Master of Morgan 85, active 1490-1520, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/317285487/#Master_of_Morgan_85,_active_1490-1520)
• Hurault de Chivernay, former owner
• Williams, Theodore, former owner
• Philip Hurd, former owner
• Firmin-Didot, Ambroise, 1790-1876, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/27097808)
• Norris Elkins, Lisa, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 214
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1538088

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is a very compact early-sixteenth-century Book of Hours made for the use of Rome. It is written in Latin in a humanistic script with illuminated initials throughout and bears a beautiful example of gold, floral gauffering. It was made in Paris for a nobleman from the Hurault de Chivernay family of Brittany, as indicated by the inclusion of his coat of arms, an azure cross in a gold crest with suns in each quadrant (fols. 26v, 86r, and 102v). This manuscript was illuminated by the Master of Morgan 85 in the workshop of Jean Pichore and features three small miniatures of the Evangelists, as well as one full-page miniature marking the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin and fifteen large miniatures for each major textual division section. Each large miniature is surrounded by an all'antica architectural border painted in camaieu d'or. The manuscript includes a Calendar in Latin (fols. 1r-10v), Gospel Lessons (fols. 11r-15v), the Passion Sequence of Saint John (fols. 16r-23v), the Stabat Mater (fols. 23v-24v), O Intemerata (fols. 24v-25r), Hours of the Virgin (fols. 26v-79v), Hours of the Cross (fols. 80r-82v), Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 83r-85v), Penitential Psalms and Litany (fols. 86r-101v), and Office of the Dead (fols. 102r-134v). The Obsecro te (fols. 137r-140r) falls in the middle of the Suffrages (fols. 135r-146v), the final section in this remarkable Book of Hours.

Notes

• The Master of Morgan 85 (fl. c. 1501-1520) is named after a Book of Hours in the Pierpont Morgan Library; he was part of the large and productive workshop of Jean Pichore, a Parisian illuminator of the 16th century; Jean Pichore worked for an impressive roster of clients, including King Louis XII and Cardinal Georges d'Ambroise, archbishop of Rouen
   
• For the Hurault de Chivernay (Cheverny) genealogy, see De la Chenaye des Bois, Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, X, cols. 884-904
   

Extent

Iii+146+iii; 79 x 53 mm bound to 83 x 57 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2-18 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

English blue morocco, motto "Deus alit me" and crest of Theodore Williams on upper cover; his mantled arms are stamped on lower cover, gilt and gauffered edges, late nineteenth century

Layout

One column of twenty lines, ruled in faint red ink; written area: 57 x 30 mm

Decoration

One full-page miniature; fifteen three-quarter page miniatures; three small, seven-line miniatures; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Executed for a man of the Hurault de Chivernay (Cheverny) family of Brittany, bearing his arms, or a cross azure, each canton charged with the sun's shadow gules (fols. 26v, 86r, and 102v); collection of Rev. Theodore Williams (his armorial on front and back covers); his sale, Stewart, Wheatley and Adlard, London, 5 April 1827, lot 919, to Philip Hurd; his sale, Evans, London, 29 March 1832, lot 627; Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris; his sale, Pawlowski & Labitte, Paris, 26 May 1879, lot 29; Bernard Quaritch, London; gift of Lisa Norris Elkins (1899-1950) to the Free Library of Philadelphia
   

Related resources

• Catalogue of the Splendid and Valuable Library of Rev. Theodore Williams, Stewart, Wheatley and Adlard, London, April 1827, p. 93, lot. 919.
• Catalogue of the splendid, curious and valuable library of the late Philip Hurd, Esq., Evans, London, 29 March 1832, lot. 627.
• Livres precieux, manuscrits et imprimes faisant partie de la bibliotheque de M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Pawlowski & Labitte, Paris, 26 May 1879, lot 29.
• Catalogue of manuscripts and books bought at the sale of part II of the Didot collection, Bernard Quaritch, London, June 1879, no. 9.
• Cat. 332: Catalogue of manuscripts: miniatures & drawings; and of books relating to them, Bernard Quaritch, November 1880, no. 89.
• 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), pp. 451-452, no. 24.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), p. 118, n.5.
• Jean-Luc Deuffic, "Les Heures de Hurault de Cheverny," in Pecia: Le livre et l'écrit 7 (2009): 17-19 (article pp. 13-30).

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 16th century
• French
• Humanistic
• France
• Illumination
• Miniature
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 11r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 16r — Passion Sequence of Saint John
• fol. 23v — Stabat Mater
• fol. 24v — O Intemerata
• fol. 26v — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 80r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 83r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 86r — Penitential Psalms and Litany
• fol. 102r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 135r — Suffrages
• fol. 137r — Obsecro te

Decorations

• fol. 11r — Large miniature, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos
• fol. 11r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 12v — Small miniature, Saint Luke writing
• fol. 13v — Small miniature, Saint Matthew
• fol. 15r — Small miniature, Saint Mark
• fol. 16r — Large miniature, Betrayal of Christ
• fol. 16r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 26v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 26v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 26v — Coat of Arms of Hurault de Chivernay
• fol. 41r — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 41r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 49v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 49v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 53r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 53r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 56v — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 56v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 60r — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 60r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 63v — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 63v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 69v — Large miniature, Death of the Virgin
• fol. 69v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 80r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 80r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 83r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 83r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 86r — Large miniature, David sending Uriah
• fol. 86r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 86r — Coat of Arms of Hurault de Chivernay
• fol. 102v — Large miniature, Raising of Lazarus
• fol. 102v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 102v — Coat of Arms of Hurault de Chivernay
• fol. 135r — Large miniature, Trinity
• fol. 135r — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or
• fol. 137v — Large miniature, Pietà
• fol. 137v — All'antica architectural border in camaieu d'or