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

Title

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Other related names

• Vrelant, Guillaume, -1481, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/95823026)
• Morot, former owner
• Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/56752944)
• Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/21158694)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Widener 5
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1471764
• deRicci: 5
• Leaves-of-gold: 20
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2966

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Paris, France
Bruges, Flanders

Summary

This Book of Hours was produced in Paris around 1425, and includes fourteen half-page miniatures by an unidentified artist. In addition to its original cycle of miniatures, the book features seven full-page grisaille miniatures by Guillaume (Wilhelm) Vrelant produced around 1470 and inserted into the book at a later date (Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child, fol. 13v; The Visitation, fol. 19v; The Trinity, fol. 24v; Saint Michael Battling a Demon, fol. 37v; The Flight Into Egypt, fol. 46r; Saint Christopher Carrying Christ, fol. 52v; and Saint Bernard, fol. 65v). The manuscript is written in a Gothic semi-quadrata script. Its textual contents consists of a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), Gospel Sequences (fols. 14r-18v), the Obsecro te (fols. 20r-23v) and O intemerata (fols. 25r-29r), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Paris (fols. 30r-102r), the Penitential Pslams, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 103r-121r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 121v-124v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 125r-128r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 128v-176v), as well as the Fifteen Joys of the Virign and the Prayers to the Five Wounds of Christ, in French (fols. 176v-186v). Lastly, it contains notes concerning its earliest known owners, the Morot family of Notre Dame de la Dehours, in Paris, from the late seventeenth century (fols. 187r-v).

Notes

• Calendar and prayers on fols. 240r-248v in French
   

Extent

Iv+187+iv; 193 x 141 mm bound to 200 x 150 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination in pencil, 1-25, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2 (10, +1 +7), 3 (7, +2), 4 (9, +8), 5 (9, +8), 6 (9, +5), 7 (8), 8 (9, +1), 9-11 (8), 12 (6), 13-22 (8), 23 (4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower center on last verso of each quire, except quires 3 and 11-13

Binding

Red velvet over pasteboard, gilt edges, circa 1900

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 110 x 68 mm

Decoration

Seven full-page miniatures (fols. 13v, 19v, 24v, 37v, 46r, 52v, 65v) by Willem Vrelant, a Flemish artist from Bruges, and dated to circa 1470 have been inserted into the book, probably at a later date; fourteen large miniatures with foliate borders at each major section of text original to the manuscript by an anonymous artist; small decorated initials, line fillers, and vertical foliate panels throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Morot family, parish of Notre Dame de la Dehour (?), circa 1648-60 (family notes on fol. 187r-v); A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia, October 19, 1910; Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia, 1915; given by his children, Josephine Widener Wichfeld and Peter A. B. Widener, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1944, in memory of their father
   

Related resources

• Ricci, Seymour de, 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. 2116, n. 5.
• Plummer, John, and Gregory Clark, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; London: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 18
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 81-83, no. 20
• König, Eberhard, Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry: Begleitband zur Faksimile-Edition (Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag, 2003), pp. 53, 60, and fig. 21.
• Dückers, Rob, and Pieter Roelofs, The Limbourg Brothers: Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416 (Nijmegen: Ludion, 2005), pp. 392-393, cat. no. 112 (entrey by Gregory T. Clark).
• Husband, Timothy. The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean De France, Duc De Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008), p. 323, n. 9.
• Delmira Espada, "A luz da grisalha. Arte, Liturgia e História no Livro de Horas dito de D. Leonor – Il165 da BNP," Medievalista [Online], 10 | 2011
• Cecere, Marianna, Newberry Library MS 53: Unlocking the Secrets of a Late Medieval Book of Hours (2017). Theses and Dissertations, p. 1592.
• Lexicon van Boekverlutchers (https://www.bookilluminators.nl/met-naam-gekende-boekverluchters/boekverluchters-w-naam/willem-vrelant/)
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2966/)

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Flanders
• Illumination
• Dutch
• Devotion
• French
• France

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, Use of Paris, in French
• fol. 14r — Gospel Sequences
• fol. 20r — Obsecro te
• fol. 25r — O Intemerata
• fol. 30r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 104r — Penitenital Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 121v — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 125r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 128v — Office of the Dead
• fol. 176v — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 183r — Prayers to the Five Wounds of Christ, in French
• fol. 187r — Notes concerning the Morot family of Notre Dame de la dehour, Paris, circa 1648-1660

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Joseph Widener
• fol. 13v — Full-page miniature, Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child
• fol. 13v — Full foliate border
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 15r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 16v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 18r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 19v — Full-page miniature, Visitation
• fol. 19v — Full foliate border
• fol. 20r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 20r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 24v — Miniature, Trinity
• fol. 24v — Full foliate border
• fol. 25r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 30r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 30r — Full foliate border
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 37v — Full-page miniature, Saint Michael
• fol. 37v — Full foliate border
• fol. 46r — Full-page miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 46r — Full foliate border
• fol. 52v — Full-page miniature, Saint Christopher
• fol. 52v — Full foliate border
• fol. 57r — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 57r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 57r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 65v — Full-page miniature, Saint Bernard
• fol. 65v — Full foliate border
• fol. 69v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 69v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 69v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 76r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 76r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 76r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 81r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 81r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 81r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 85v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 85v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 85v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 90r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 90r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 97v — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 97v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 97v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 104r — Large miniature, King David in prayer
• fol. 104r — Full foliate border
• fol. 104r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 121v — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 121v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 121v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 125r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 125r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 125r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 128v — Large miniature, Burial scene
• fol. 128v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 128v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 176v — Large miniature, Virgin with the Christ Child and an Angel
• fol. 176v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 176v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 183r — Large miniature, Last Judgment
• fol. 183r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 183r — Illuminated initial Q