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DS ID:

DS6337

Shelfmark:

Widener 5

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Artist:

Vrelant, Guillaume, -1481

Willem Vrelant WIKIDATA

Place:

Bruges, Flanders

Bruges TGN

Paris, France

Paris TGN

Date:

1425-1470

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+187+iv; 193 x 141 mm bound to 200 x 150 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Morot

Morot WIKIDATA

Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952

A. S. W. Rosenbach WIKIDATA

Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943

Joseph E. Widener WIKIDATA

Note:

Calendar and prayers on fols. 240r-248v in French
Binding: Red velvet over pasteboard, gilt edges, circa 1900
Layout: One column of fifteen lines, frame-ruled in red ink; written area: 110 x 68 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Seven full-page miniatures (fols. 13v, 19v, 24v, 37v, 46r, 52v, 65v) by Willem Vrelant, a Flemish artist from Bruges, and dated to circa 1470 have been inserted into the book, probably at a later date; fourteen large miniatures with foliate borders at each major section of text original to the manuscript by an anonymous artist; small decorated initials, line fillers, and vertical...
Related resource: Ricci, Seymour de, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2116, n. 5.
Related resource: Plummer, John, and Gregory Clark, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts, 1420-1530, from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; London: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 18
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 81-83, no. 20
Related resource: König, Eberhard, Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry: Begleitband zur Faksimile-Edition (Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag, 2003), pp. 53, 60, and fig. 21.
Related resource: Dückers, Rob, and Pieter Roelofs, The Limbourg Brothers: Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416 (Nijmegen: Ludion, 2005), pp. 392-393, cat. no. 112 (entrey by Gregory T. Clark).
Related resource: Husband, Timothy. The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean De France, Duc De Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008), p. 323, n. 9.
Related resource: Delmira Espada, "A luz da grisalha. Arte, Liturgia e História no Livro de Horas dito de D. Leonor – Il165 da BNP," Medievalista [Online], 10 | 2011
Related resource: Cecere, Marianna, Newberry Library MS 53: Unlocking the Secrets of a Late Medieval Book of Hours (2017). Theses and Dissertations, p. 1592.
Related resource: Lexicon van Boekverlutchers
Related resource: TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550)
Provenance: Morot family, parish of Notre Dame de la Dehour (?), circa 1648-60 (family notes on fol. 187r-v); A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia; P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia, October 19, 1910; Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia, 1915; given by his children, Josephine Widener Wichfeld and Peter A. B. Widener, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1944, in memory of their father

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

Europe--Flanders

Prayers and devotions

Books of hours

French (culture or style)

France

Dutch (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/widener_005.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/widener_005/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia