Description of Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1967‑30‑120: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome contributor Ryan McNally cataloger Nicholas Herman Council on Library and Information Resources Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs These images and the content of Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 1967‑30‑120: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Philadelphia Museum of Art has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 1967‑30‑120: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Original folios mistakenly unnumbered between 62 and 63, and 73 and 74 Gilded rubrics in the Hours of the Virgin Antiphon in Latin in a humanist hand added to unnumbered folio following fol. 73 Previously stated date of 1503 is perhaps based on a reading of inscription on fol. 178r Henry G. Gardiner, "The Samuel S. White, 3rd, and Vera White Collection", Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 296/297 (1968), p. 118 (article pp. 71-72+75-147+150) United States Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection 1967‑30‑120 This manuscript is a Book of Hours made in northern France for the Use of Rome in the late-fifteenth century. It contains a Suffrage to Saint Sebastian added in a later hand prior to the beginning of the manuscript proper, a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), Gospel Lessons with large miniatures of the Evangelists (fols. 13r-20v), the Obsecro te (fols. 21r-25r), the O intemerata (fols. 25v-28v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 29r-97v), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 98r-101v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 102r-105v), an Accessory prayer in Italian in a later humanist hand (fols. 106r-106v), the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 107r-122v), the Office of the Dead (fols. 123r-171v), and the Mass of the Virgin added in a nearly contemporary rotunda script (fols. 172r-177v). Seventeen large miniatures plus an historiated initial for Lauds (fol. 50r), surrounded by foliate borders containing animal and human drolleries mark the divisions between these texts. The subjects depicted are Saint John (fol. 13r), Saint Luke (fol. 15r), Saint Matthew (fol. 17r) and Saint Mark (fol. 19r), along with the Virgin and Child (fol. 21r), the Lamentation (fol. 25v), the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Nativity (fol. 63r), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 69r), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 74r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 79r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 85r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 93r), the Crucifixion (fol. 98r), Pentecost (fol. 102r), David and Bathsheba (fol. 107r), and the Three Living and The Three Dead (fol. 123r). The miniatures, though damaged by moisture and abrasion, show a sensitive palette and an eye for anecdotal details. Various features point to an earlier Italian ownership of this Book of Hours. Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600); Italian Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome former owner Samuel Tolfrey Christie? former owner Samuel Stockton White III former owner White, Vera M. (American painter and lithographer, 1888-1966) Unnumbered i recto Office of the Saints Cosmas and Damian, on paper in an eighteenth-century hand Unnumbered iv recto Latin inscriptions with English translations in a later hand Unnumbered iv verso Suffrage of Saint Sebastian in humanist hand 1r Calendar, in French 13r Gospel Lessons 21r Obsecro Te 25v O Intemerata 29r Hours of the Virgin 98r Hours of the Cross 102r Hours of the Holy Spirit 106r Accessory prayer in Italian in later humanist hand, Dulcissimo Signor Mio... 107r Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers 123r Office of The Dead 172r Mass of the Virgin, in a contemporary rotunda script 178r Notes in ink and pencil Unnumbered i recto Ownership note, Samuel Tolfrey, 1869; Ownership notes in pencil Unnumbered ii recto List of miniatures in German, in pencil

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 v+182+iii; 180 x 130 mm bound to 184 x 136 mm Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

1-2 (6), 3-18 (8), 19-20 (4), 21-23 (8), 24-25 (4)

 One column of fifteen lines, ruled in purple ink; written area: 104 x 69 mm Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata Seventeen large miniatures and one historiated initial; full foliate borders surrounding each miniature, some with drolleries; single foliate margin on remaining rectos; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout 13rLarge Miniature, Saint John on Patmos 13rFull foliate border 13rIlluminated initial I 15rLarge miniature, Saint Luke painting portrait of the Virgin and Child 15rFull foliate border 15rIlluminated initial I 17rLarge miniature, Saint Matthew 17rFull foliate border 17rIlluminated initial C 19rLarge miniature, Saint Mark 19rFull foliate border 19rIlluminated initial I 21rLarge miniature, Virgin and Child with musical angels 21rFull foliate border 21rIlluminated initial O 25vLarge miniature, Lamentation 25vFull foliate border 25vIlluminated initial O 29rLarge miniature, Annunciation 29rFull foliate border 29rIlluminated initial D 50rHistoriated initial D, Visitation 50rFull foliate border 63rLarge miniature, Nativity 63rFull foliate border 63rIlluminated initial D 69rLarge miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds 69rFull foliate border 69rIlluminated initial D 74rLarge miniature, Adoration of the Magi 74rFull foliate border 74rIlluminated initial D 79rLarge miniature, Presentation in the Temple 79rFull foliate border 79rIlluminated initial D 84rLarge miniature, Flight into Egypt 84rFull foliate border 84rIlluminated initial D 93rLarge miniature, Coronation of the Virgin 93rFull foliate border 93rIlluminated initial C 98rLarge miniature, Crucifixion 98rFull foliate border 98rIlluminated initial D 102rLarge miniature, Pentecost 102rFull foliate border 102rIlluminated initial D 107rLarge miniature, David and Bathsheba 107rFull foliate border 107rIlluminated initial D 123rLarge miniature, The Three Living and The Three Dead 123rFull foliate border 123rIlluminated initial D

Red morocco with gilt stamping and tooling, circa 1580-1600, Italian(?); Crucifixion on front cover and Virgin and Child on back cover; bee motif repeated on cover and center of spine

Late 15th century

France Early evidence of ownership in Italy (Mass of the Virgin in Rotunda Script, fols. 172r-178r, prayer added in a humanist hand on fol. 106, and Italian-style binding; Samuel Tolfrey, 1869 (possibly Samuel Tolfrey Christie, inscription on first lower flyleaf); possible German owner (list of miniatures in German on second to last flyleaf); Samuel Stockton White III and Vera White; bequeathed to the PMA in 1967 Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Book of Hours 16th century French Illumination France Devotion