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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Paris (Horae Baetae Virginis cum calendario)

Other related names

• Workshop of Maître François, French (active Paris), active 1450 - 1499, artist (https://viaf.org/viaf/96572081)
• White, Henry, former owner
• Earle, George H. Jr., former owner
• White, Samuel S. III, former owner
• White, Vera M. (American painter and lithographer, 1888-1966), former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/95849054/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1967‑30‑122
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/257551.html

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This Book of Hours was made in Paris around the year 1470 and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480). It contains a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v); Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-19v); Obescro te and O intemerata (fols. 19v-27v); the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Paris (fols. 29r-102v); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 103r-112r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 112v-119v); the Penitential Psalms followed by a litany and prayers (fols. 121r-138v); the Office of the Dead, lacking its beginning and presumably a miniature (fols. 139r-189r); the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 189v-195v), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord followed by various prayers and suffrages in both French and Latin, including a prayer ("A Royne qui fustes mise et assise...") attributed to Guillaume Alexis (fols. 196r-217v). The Gospel Lessons are decorated with a large miniature of Saint John the Evangelist (fol. 13r), and small miniatures of the other three evangelists (fols. 15r, 16v, and 18v). The remaining twelve large miniatures show the Annunciation (fol. 29r), the Visitation (fol. 55v), the Nativity (fol. 69v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 74r), the Adoration of the Magi (fols. 79r), the Presentation in the Temple (fols. 84r), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 89r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 96v), the Crucifixion (fol. 103r), Pentecost (fol. 112v), King David in Prayer (fol. 121r), and the Trinity (fol. 196r).

Notes

• Prayer beginning "O Royne qui fustes mise et assise..." on fols. 212r-217v attributed to Guillaume Alexis
   

Extent

I+217+i; 162 x 118 mm bound to 172 x 130 mm

Foliation

Foliated, pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2-14 (8), 15 (12), 16 (8), 17 (8, -3), 18-26 (8), 27 (2)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords, contemporary ink, lower right verso: 20v, 36v, 44v, 52v, 60v, 68v, 76v, 84v, 92v, 100v, 108v, 116v, 128v, 136v, 143v, 151v, 159v, 167v, 175v, 183v, 191v

Binding

Black morocco, gilt edges, eighteenth century; clasps; in a faded green twentieth-century slipcase; stamped on spine "LIVRE D'HEURES FRANÇAIS, SÆC XV, S. S. WHITE III"

Layout

Single column of eighteen lines; frame ruled; written area: 77 x 46 mm

Decoration

Red, blue, and gold initials and line-fillers throughout; partial bar borders and partial spray borders on almost every page; three small miniatures with three-quarter spray borders; thirteen large miniatures with full spray borders

Script

Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata

Provenance

• Henry White (Sotheby's, London, 21 April 1902, lot 1121); George H. Earle Jr.; White Collection
   

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
• Christian
• French
• France
• Illumination
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1967‑30‑122: Book of Hours, Use of Paris (Horae Baetae Virginis cum calendario) 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/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in French
• fol. 13r — Gospel Lessons, followed by Obsecro te
• fol. 24r — O intemerata
• fol. 29r — Hours of the Virgin, Use of Paris
• fol. 103r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 112v — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 121r — Penitential Psalms, followed by Litany and prayers
• fol. 139r — The Office of the Dead (beginning lacking)
• fol. 189v — Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, in French
• fol. 196r — Seven Requests to Our Lord, in French
• fol. 200r — Five Joys of the Virgin, followed by further prayers to the Virgin, suffrage to Saint Michael, prayers for after confession and communion, suffrage to Saint Sebastian, and a prayer in French: "O Royne qui fustes mise et assise..."

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Armorial bookplate, Henry White
• Inside front cover — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil and ink
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• fol. 13r — Large miniature, Saint John the Evangelist
• fol. 13r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 15r — Small miniature, Saint Mark
• fol. 15r — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 16v — Small miniature, Saint Matthew
• fol. 16v — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 18v — Small miniature, Saint Luke
• fol. 18v — Partial bar border, partial spray border
• fol. 19v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 24r — Partial bar border, spray border on three sides
• fol. 24r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 29r — Large miniature, Annunciation
• fol. 29r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 29r — Illuminted initial D
• fol. 55v — Large miniature, Visitation
• fol. 55v — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 55v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 67v — Large miniature, Nativity
• fol. 67v — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 67v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 74r — Large miniature, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 74r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 74r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 79r — Large miniature, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 79r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 79r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 84r — Large miniature, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 84r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 84r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 89r — Large miniature, Flight into Egypt
• fol. 89r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 89r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 96v — Large miniature, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 96v — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 96v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 103r — Large miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 103r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 103r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 112v — Large miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 112v — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 112v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 121r — Large miniature, David praying
• fol. 121r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 121r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 189v — Large miniature, Virgin and Child
• fol. 189v — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 189v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 196r — Large miniature, Trinity
• fol. 196r — Partial bar border, full spray border
• fol. 196r — Illuminated initial D
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil and ink
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil