Collection ID: 0031 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Other related names

• Jean Duderé, former owner
• Michelle du Deré, former owner
• G. Duderé, former owner
• Warton, former owner
• Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/5305717)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1924‑19‑1
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 2
• Former-PMA-shelf-mark: B3.H7

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This Book of Hours for the Use of Paris was produced between 1460 and 1480, for a female patron whose portrait is found in two miniatures (fols. 124r and 130r). The book begins with a calendar, in French (fols. 3r-15v), followed by the Gospel Lessons (fols. 16r-20r) and Obsecro te and "Ave salus mundi" prayers (fols. 20v-23v). The Hours of the Virgin (fols. 24r-66v) is for the Use of Paris, and begins with a large miniature of the Annunciation. It is followed by the Hours of the Cross (fols. 67r-69v) and Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 70r-72v), introduced by miniatures of the Crucifixion and Pentecost, respectively. This is followed by the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 73r-86r), which begins with a miniature of King David in Prayer, and the Office of the Dead (fols. 86v-114v), which is introduced with a miniature of a Burial Scene. The book also contains a series of prayers, in French (fols. 115r-123v), "Sire je me recommande à toy...," "Sire plaise toy essautier...," "O très certaine espèrance...." The next section is the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (fols. 124r-129v), in French, which is introduced by a miniature of the Virgin and Child showing the book's female owner. This section is followed by the Seven requests of our Lord (fols. 130r-137v), in French, introduced by a miniature of the Trinity, again with an adjacent portrait of the book's owner. Included in the same section are the French prayers, "Sainte vraye crois...," and "Je te prie dame sainte marie...." The book's final section (fols. 138r-150v), which is not introduced by a miniature, contains the prayers to the Virgin, "O très parfaicte et entière mère de dieu..." and "O très certaine esperance," followed by suffrages to Saint Sebastian and Saint Christopher, in Latin and in French. Fol. 1r contains an ownership inscription for Michelle du Deré from 1577. Fol. 1v contains an inscription by G. du Deré from 1650 stating (erroneously) that the donor portraits in the book represent his stepmother.

Notes

• Some rubrics in French
   
• Fragment of sixteenth-century document visible under lower pastedown
   
• Inscription on fol. 1r: "Ces heures apartiennent a damoyselle Michelle du Deré femme de Me Loys Dorleans aduocat en la court de Parlement et lesquelles luy sont echeues par la succession de feu son pere Me Jehan Duderé conseiller du roy & auditeur en sa chambre des comptes, 1577; Amour & Humilité sont les doux liens de nostre mariage."
   
• Inscription on fol. 1v: "Ce présent livre m'a esté donné par feu monsieur d'Orléans, fils de mademoiselle d'Orléans nomée Michelle Duderé lequel estoit aveugle et qui estoit digne de cette affliction, mon cousin germain, G. Dudere 1650... les figures qui sont à genoux dans les ymages de ce livre sont de feu damoiselle Michelle de Sauslai mère de deffunct mon frère."
   

Extent

154; 161 x 110 mm bound to 167 x 123 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4), 2 (12), 3-8 (8), 9 (3, +3), 10-15 (8), 16 (9, +9), 17-19 (8), 20 (6), 21 (2)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century gilt stamped and tooled brown calf; gilt tooled edges; traces of clasp mounts; rebacked

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; ruled in red ink; written area: 90 x 65 mm

Decoration

Seven large miniatures, each surrounded by full foliate borders; three-sided foliate borders marking other section breaks; single-side foliate borders on all other pages; sixteen three-or-four-line illuminated initials; numerous smaller illuminated and colored initials throughout, some with marginal sprays

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Jean Duderé; Michelle du Deré (by descent from the former, 1577, as per inscription on fol. 1r); owned (1650, as per inscription on fol. 1v) by G. Duderé, who notes: "Les figures qui sont à genoux dans les ymages de ce livre [i. e., on fols. 122r and 128r] sont de feu damoiselle Michelle de Sauslai, mère de deffunct mon frère."; Sotheby's (London, 19 March 1888, lot 420) to Warton; Sotheby's (London, 19 March 1896, lot 412) to Tregaskis; bought at the sale of Samuel W. Pennypacker (Philadelphia, 25 April 1906, part II, lot 411, ill. in color; printed description tipped upper pastedown); acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1924 (former PMA shelf mark B3.H7 written on lower pastedown)
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, 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. 2101, no. 2.
• 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. 470-471, no number.

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 4r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 16r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 20v — Obsecro te, followed by prayer, Ave salus mundi
• fol. 24r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 67r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 70r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 73r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 86v — Office of the Dead
• fol. 115r — Prayers, in French, "Sire je me recommande à toy...," "Sire plaise toy essautier...," "O très certaine espèrance..."
• fol. 124r — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 130r — Seven requests of our Lord, in French, followed by prayers, "Sainte vraye crois...," and "Je te prie dame sainte marie..."
• fol. 138r — Prayers to the Virgin, in French, "O très parfaicte et entière mère de dieu...," "O très certaine esperance," followed by suffrages to Saint Sebastian and Saint Christopher, in Latin and in French

Decorations

• Unfolded tipped in description — Print catalog description, reverse
• Unfolded tipped in description — Print catalog description, reverse
• Unfolded tipped in description — Print catalog description, front
• fol. 1r — Ownership note, Michelle du Deré
• fol. 1v — Ownership note, G. du Deré
• fol. 16r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 16r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 20v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 20v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 24r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 24r — Full foliate border
• fol. 24r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 40r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 48r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 52r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 54v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 54v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 57r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 57r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 59v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 59v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 63r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 63r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 67r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 67r — Full foliate border
• fol. 67r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 70r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 70r — Full foliate border
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 73r — Large miniature, King David in Prayer
• fol. 73r — Full foliate border
• fol. 73r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 86v — Large miniature, Burial Scene
• fol. 86v — Full foliate border
• fol. 86v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 124r — Large miniature, Virgin and Child with Angel and Female owner portrait
• fol. 124r — Full foliate border
• fol. 124r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 130r — Large miniature, Trinity with an Angel holding the Crown of Thorns, with Female owner portrait
• fol. 130r — Full foliate border
• fol. 130r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 133v — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 133v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 138r — Three-sided foliate border
• fol. 138r — Illuminated initial O