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

Title

Book of Hours for Rome Use

Other related names

• Collins, Philip S., former owner
• Mary Schell Collins, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1945‑65‑16
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Philip S. Collins Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/200788.html
• deRicci: 21

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This Book of Hours, produced in Flanders around 1460, features an extensive collection of texts devoted to the Virgin Mary, including her Mass and her Office for Advent as well as the usual Hours and prayers. Its full contents are: a calendar (fols. 1v-13r), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 16r-21v), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 23r-28v), the Mass of the Virgin (fols. 30r-34r), Gospel Lessons (fols. 34v-38r), the prayers Obsecro te and O intemerata (fols. 38v-43r), eight suffrages (fols. 44r-47v), the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 49r-106r), the Office of the Virgin for Advent (fols. 108r-114v), the Penitential Psalms followed by the Litany and prayers (fols. 116r-131v), and the Office of the Dead (fols. 133r-168r). There are fourteen full-page miniatures. These show: Pentecost (fol. 15v), Saint Bernardino of Siena (fol. 22v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 29v), the Annunciation (fol. 48v), the Visitation (fol. 64v), the Nativity (fol. 74v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 79v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 84v), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 89v), the Massacre of the Innocents (fol. 94v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 101v), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 107v), the Last Judgement (fol. 115v), and the Raising of Lazarus (fol. 132v). All miniatures appear Flemish in origin except Saint Bernardino miniature (fol. 22v), which appears French in style and is also the only miniature not to have a grisaille border. The reason for the addition of this miniature in a different style may be due to Saint Bernardino's recent canonization, in 1450. In addition to these full-page miniatures, there are ten historiated initials showing the Virgin and Child (fol. 38v), Pietà (fol. 41r), and the eight saints commemorated in the suffrages–four male and four female (fols. 44r-47v).

Notes

• The miniatures may have been produced by an English illuminator working in Flanders
   
• Last folio (fol. 170) is numbered "339"
   

Extent

Ii+170+i; 142 x 89 mm bound to 148 x 104 mm

Foliation

Foliated, modern pencil, upper right recto

Collation

uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Nineteenth-century green velvet cover; green color is not characteristic of velvet from before the nineteenth century and the end band stitching also indicates a nineteenth-century date; red clamshell case

Layout

Single column of eighteen lines; frame ruled; some pages have residual pricking along outer edge; written area: 88 x 57 mm

Decoration

Initials in red, blue, and gold throughout; ten historiated initials with partial foliate borders; fourteen full-page miniatures with full foliate borders

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Gift of Mary Schell Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
   

Related resources

• Zigrosser, Carl, "The Philip S. Collins Collection of Mediaeval Illuminated Manuscripts," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 58, no. 275 (Autumn 1962): p. 33, ill. (article pp. 3-34).

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Christian
• Flemish
• Grisaille
• Illumination
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Flanders
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Calendar
• fol. 16r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 23r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 30r — Mass of the Virgin
• fol. 34v — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 38v — Obsecro te followed by O intemerata
• fol. 44r — Suffrages
• fol. 49r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 108r — Office of the Virgin for Advent
• fol. 116r — Penitential Psalms, followed by Litany and prayers
• fol. 133r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• Pasted-in catalog clipping verso — Printed catalog entry
• fol. 15v — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 15v — Full foliate border
• fol. 16r — Full foliate border
• fol. 16r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 22v — Full-page miniature, Saint Bernardino of Siena
• fol. 22v — Full foliate border
• fol. 23r — Full foliate border
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 29v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 29v — Full foliate border
• fol. 30r — Full foliate border
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 38v — Historiated initial O, Virgin and Child
• fol. 38v — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 41r — Historiated initial O, Pietà
• fol. 41r — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 44r — Historiated initial I, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 44r — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 44v — Historiated initial H, Saint Adrian
• fol. 44v — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 45r — Historiated initial O, Saint Sebastian
• fol. 45r — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 45v — Historiated initial V, Saint Anthony
• fol. 45v — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 46r — Historiated initial V, Saint Catherine
• fol. 46r — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 46v — Historiated initial V, Saint Barbara
• fol. 46v — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 47r — Historiated initial E, Saint Margaret
• fol. 47r — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 47v — Historiated initial M, Saint Mary Magdalene
• fol. 47v — Partial bar border, partial foliate border
• fol. 48v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 48v — Full foliate border
• fol. 49r — Full foliate border
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 64v — Full-page miniature, Visitation
• fol. 64v — Full foliate border
• fol. 65r — Full foliate border
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 74v — Full-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 74v — Full foliate border
• fol. 75r — Full foliate border
• fol. 75r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 79v — Full-page miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 79v — Full foliate border
• fol. 80r — Full foliate border
• fol. 80r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 84v — Full-page miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 84v — Full foliate border
• fol. 85r — Full foliate border
• fol. 85r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 89v — Full-page miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 89v — Full foliate border
• fol. 90r — Full foliate border
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 94v — Full-page miniature, Massacre of the Innocents
• fol. 94v — Full foliate border
• fol. 95r — Full foliate border
• fol. 95r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 101v — Full-page miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 101v — Full foliate border
• fol. 102r — Full foliate border
• fol. 102r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 107v — Full-page miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 107v — Full foliate border
• fol. 108r — Full foliate border
• fol. 108r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 115v — Full-page miniature, Last Judgement
• fol. 115v — Full foliate border
• fol. 116r — Full foliate border
• fol. 116r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 132v — Full-page miniature, Raising of Lazarus
• fol. 132v — Full foliate border
• fol. 133r — Full foliate border
• fol. 133r — Illuminated initial D