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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Other related names

• Samuel Stockton White III, former owner
• White, Vera M. (American painter and lithographer, 1888-1966), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/95849054)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1967‑30‑121
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection)

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript is a book of hours, Use of Paris (except for the hymn in Prime). Most of the manuscript was made in France in the late fifteenth century. It is lacking a calendar, and six of the fifteen large illuminations marking major text divisions are now missing. The fifteenth-century manuscript is written in Latin, except for two prayers at the end in Middle French (fols. 141r-148r), and decorated with illuminated side borders and letters on every page. Additional prayers in French (including a prayer to Saint Michael, a prayer to a guardian angel, a prayer for one's enemies, and prayers to the Virgin) and Latin (including prayers to Saint Barbara, Saint Appollonia, Saints Cosmas and Damian, and the Virgin, as well as a litany of the angels), written in a humanist hand probably in the sixteenth century, have been added on the final blank parchment leaf (fol. 149) and added paper leaves at the end (fols. 150-177).

Notes

• Missing illuminated leaves: opening of Matins (before fol. 16); opening of Lauds (before fol. 25); opening of Sext (before fol. 48); opening of Compline (before fol. 65); opening of the Hours of the Cross (before fol. 92); opening of the Joys of the Virgin (before fol. 141)
   
• Chancery quarto (paper fols. 150-177)
   

Watermark

Unidentified eagle (paper fols. 150-177)

Extent

I+177+i; 185 x 138 mm bound to 191 x 146 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (8), 2 (8, -8), 3 (8, -1), 4 (8, -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8), 5 (12), 6 (8), 7 (8, -4), 8 (8), 9 (4), 10 (8, -2), 11-12 (8), 13 (8, -6), 14 (8), 15 (4), 16-18 (8), 19 (4), 20 (8), 21 (9, +9), 22 (6), 23 (10), 24 (4), 25 (8)

Support

Mixed

Binding

Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century leather (?), gilt-tooled; marbled paper pastedowns; joints cracked

Layout

One column of fourteen lines, frame-ruled in red ink (fols. 1r- 149v); one column of fourteen to nineteen lines, crudely frame-ruled in red or brown ink (possibly after the text was written, fols. 150r-177v); written area: 97 x 62 mm (fols. 1r-149v), 118-122 x 77-81 mm (fols. 150r-177v)

Decoration

Nine large arched miniatures (Evangelist portrait of John, fol. 1r; Nativity, fol. 37r; Annunciation to the Shepherds, fol. 43v; Presentation in the Temple, fol. 52v; Flight into Egypt, fol. 57v; King David in prayer, fol. 71r; Pentecost, fol. 99r; a burial scene, fol. 106r; and the Trinity, fol. 144r), with full borders of ivy leaves, flowers, berries, and acanthus leaves, and illuminated letters on gold grounds; outer borders of ivy leaves, flowers, berries, and acanthus leaves throughout; illuminated initials, one or two lines in height, in gold on blue and pink grounds throughout; blue, pink, and gold line fillers throughout; rubrication in red; occasional early modern floral decorations in borders of later paper leaves (fols. 151r, 155v, 160r)

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Humanistic

Provenance

• Samuel Stockton White III and Vera White; bequeathed to the PMA in 1967
   

Related resources

• 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)

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Gospel Lessons
• fol. 7v — Prayer, Obsecro te
• fol. 11v — Prayer, O intemerata
• fol. 16r — Hours of the Virgin (partial)
• fol. 71r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 92r — Hours of the Cross (partial)
• fol. 99r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 106r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 141r — Prayer, Doulce Dame (partial)
• fol. 144r — Prayer, Les sept requestes
• fol. 149r — Additional prayers

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Large miniature, Evangelist John on Patmos
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 11v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 37r — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 43v — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 43v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 52v — Large illumination, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 52v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 57v — Large illumination, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 71r — Large illumination, King David in prayer
• fol. 71r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 99r — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 99r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 106r — Large miniature, Burial scene
• fol. 106r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 144r — Large illumination, The Trinity with Christ crucified
• fol. 144r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 151r — Marginal floral decoration
• fol. 155v — Marginal floral decoration
• fol. 160r — Marginal floral decoration