File:Book of Hours for Paris Use (IA 1945 65 12).pdf
Summary
Book of Hours for Paris Use
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Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs |
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Book of Hours for Paris Use |
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Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1945‑65‑12. Paris, France, Possibly made for use in Brittany (possibly Quimper, according to label on clamshell box), feast of Saint Ivo in calendar (May 19, fol. 5v) and Saint Corentine in litany (fol. 69r); circa 1420. This manuscript is a Book of Hours made for the Use of Paris, containing a calendar in French (fols. 1r-12v), lessons from the Gospels (fols. 13r-18v), the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 19r-72v), the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and prayers (fols. 73r-92r), the Hours of the Cross (fols. 92v-95v), the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 96r-98r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 98v-127v), prayers including Obsecto te and O intemerata and suffrages (fols. 127v-142v), the Joys of the Virgin in French (fols. 143r-148r), and the Seven Requests to Our Lord in French (fols. 148v-151r). Large miniatures mark most of the divisions between and within these texts. Their subjects are the Annunciation (fol. 19r), the Visitation (fol. 40v), the Nativity (50v), the Annunciation to the Shepherds (fol. 55v), the Adoration of the Magi (fol. 59r), the Presentation in the Temple (fol. 62v), the Flight into Egypt (fol. 66r), the Coronation of the Virgin (fol. 69r), King David in Prayer (fol. 73r), the Crucifixion (fol. 92v), Pentecost (fol. 96r), a funeral (fol. 98v), the Virgin and Child (fol. 143r), and the risen Christ seated on a rainbow (fol. 148v). These miniatures are surrounded by partial bar borders and full ivy leaf borders, or foliate borders as on fols. 19r and 73r. Partial ivy leaf borders also spring from decorated initials throughout the manuscript. The style and certain features of the miniatures suggest an artist working in the circle of the Boucicaut Master, who was active in Paris in the first decades of the fifteenth century. Subjects: Book of Hours; 15th century; Christian |
Language | Latin |
Publication date | 1420 |
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IA Collections: bibliotheca-philadelphiensis; upenn; americana |
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1945_65_12 |
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Public Domain |
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