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

Title

Book of Hours for Rome Use

Other related names

• Brölemann, Henry Auguste 1775-1854, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/306258238)
• Thierry Brölemann, former owner
• Brölemann, Arthur 1826-1904, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/90747473)
• Mallet, Étienne, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/93687784)
• Collins, Philip S., former owner
• Mary Schell Collins, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1945‑65‑8
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Philip S. Collins Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• Leaves-of-gold: 38
• deRicci: 19

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Carpentras?, Provence, France

Summary

This Book of Hours for the Use of Rome was probably made in the vicinity of Carpentras, in Provence, around the middle of the fifteenth century; Saint Siffredus, patron of Carpentras's principal church, is commemorated in the calendar on 27 November (fol. 11v). It contains a calendar (fols. 1r-12v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 13r-69v), the Hours of the Holy Cross (fols. 70r-73r), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 73v-76r), the Office for the Dead (fols. 76v-110r), the seven Penitential Psalms, a Litany, and prayers (fols. 110v-133v) all in Latin, and a poem dedicated to the Virgin (fols. 137r-143v) in French. Twelve large miniatures with ivy-leaf/ spray borders inhabited by animals, insects, birds, and human figures mark most of the divisions between and within these texts. The subjects depicted are the Annunciation (fol. 13r), the Nativity (fol. 32r), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 36r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 39v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 42v), the Coronation of the Virgin (f. 50v), the Crucifixion (fol. 70v), the Trinity (fol. 73v), a funeral (fol. 76v), King David praying (fol. 110v), and the Virgin and Child twice (fols. 129r and 137r). The costume of the black magus in the Adoration of the Magi miniature (fol. 42v) suggests a terminus post quem of circa 1450, rendering the gilt ivy-leaf borders–typical of the earlier fifteenth century–outmoded. The style of this manuscript's miniatures has been described as "childlike," but the liberal use of gilding and its extensive colour palette do not suggest second-rate production.

Notes

• Two flyleaves front and back; outer flyleaves paper, inner flyleaves parchment
   
• Two lines erased on fol. 62v
   
• Poem in French at end of volume (see Jean Sonet, Répertoire d'incipit de prières en ancien français, no. 695) written in bâtarde (fols. 137r-143v)
   
• Verses, antiphons, and responses written in smaller script
   

Extent

Ii+146+ii; 208 x 140 mm bound to 220 x 150 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, unfoliated single leaves after fols. 15, 18

Collation

1 (12), 2-15 (8), 16 (6), 17-18 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Downward-facing catchwords in ink, lower right last verso, most partly trimmed, a few trimmed away entirely

Binding

Early nineteenth-century French marbled calf, with deterioriation from acid used for marbling, gilt-tooled; gilt spine, spine title: "Heures Antique"

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 110 x 65 mm

Decoration

Twelve large miniatures with spray borders, thirteen decorated initials, initials with penwork and line fillers throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Note in French on verso of penultimate flyleaf, sixteenth century; Henri-Auguste Brölemann (Lyons, 1755-1854; armorial bookplate, inside front cover); Thierry Brölemann (Lyons, 1854); Madame Étienne Mallet; Maggs Bros. (London), catalog 512 (1928), no. 535 and catalog 542 (1930), no. 97 (clipping pasted inside front cover); Philip S. Collins (bookplate, front flyleaf); gift of Mary Schell Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
   

Related resources

• Catalogue des manuscrits et livres rares de la bibliothèque d'Arthur Brölemann (Lyon: Alexandre Rey, 1897), p. 6, no. 11.
• Zigrosser, Carl, "The Philip S. Collins Collection of Mediaeval Illuminated Manuscripts," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 58, no. 275 (Autumn 1962): pp. 20-21 (article pp. 3-34).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 117-118, no. 38.
• Beyond Use: A Digital Database of Variant Readings in Late Medieval Books of Hours (https://web.archive.org/web/20180829140057/http://www6.sewanee.edu/beyonduse/details.php?mssby=Shelfmark&shelfmark=Ms.+1945-65-08+%28JP%29&manuscript=PhilaMAms1945-65-08+%28JP+197%29)

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome
• fol. 70r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 73v — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 77r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 110v — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 129r — Obsecro te
• fol. 133v — Partially erased post-medieval inscription in French (fols. 133v-136r)
• fol. 137r — Devotional poem in French, "Gloriouse vierge Royne"

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Armorial bookplate, A. Brölemann
• Inside front cover — Print catalog clipping
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• fol. 13r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 13r — Coat of arms supported by angels
• fol. 13r — Vertical spray borders with flowers, human and animal figures, foliate decoration springing from logs
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 32r — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 32r — Spray borders on three sides with flowers, human and animal figures, foliate decoration springing from logs and vases
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 36r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 36r — Full spray border with flowers, animals and birds, foliate decoration springing from logs and vases
• fol. 36r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 39v — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 39v — Full spray border with flowers and foliate decoration springing from vases
• fol. 39v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 42v — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 42v — Full spray border with flowers, moth, human and animal figures, foliate decoration springing from logs
• fol. 42v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 50v — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 50v — Full spray border with flowers, foliate decoration springing from logs and vases
• fol. 50v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 70r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 70r — Full spray border with flowers, foliate decoration springing from vases and logs
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 73v — Large miniature, Trinity as Throne of Mercy
• fol. 73v — Full spray border with flowers, foliate decoration springing from logs and vases
• fol. 73v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 77r — Large miniature, funeral scene
• fol. 77r — Full spray border with flowers and foliate decoration springing from logs
• fol. 77r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 110v — Large miniature, King David praying
• fol. 110v — Full spray border with flowers and foliate decoration springing from logs
• fol. 110v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 129r — Large miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 129r — Full spray border with flowers, foliate decoration springing from logs and vases
• fol. 129r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 137r — Large miniature, Virgin nursing the Christ Child
• fol. 137r — Full spray border with flowers and foliate decoration springing from logs
• fol. 137r — Illuminated initial G
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Ownership note in ink, sixteenth century