Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener 6

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DS ID:

DS6338

Shelfmark:

Widener 6

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Artist:

Egerton Master, active 1410

Master of Egerton WIKIDATA

Master of the Mazarin Hours

Mazarine Master WIKIDATA

Bedford Master, follower

Bedford Master WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1415-1420

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i+252+i; 220 x 155 mm bound to 225 x 160 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Marguerite de Lorraine

Marguerite of Lorraine WIKIDATA

Boscher, Sebastienne

Sebastienne Boscher WIKIDATA

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

Joseph E. Widener WIKIDATA

Note:

Delicate binding, some gatherings loose
Binding: Late-sixteenth-century, French, gold-tooled spine and boards stamped "Servire Deo" on the upper cover and "Regnare Est" on the lower cover, attributed to Marguerite de Lorraine, duchesse de Joyeuse
Layout: One column of thirteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 95 x 65 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Forty-one large miniatures; one historiated initial; three-line decorated initials at major text divisions; smaller decorated initials and line-endings throughout; full foliate borders throughout, some with colored acanthus leaves, some containing roundels featuring grotesques and human figures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout
Related resource: Catalogue general des manuscripts des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 10 (Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 1889), pp. 338-339, no. 84.
Related resource: Catalogue de livres rares manuscrits avec miniatures, Théophile Belin, Paris, 1902, no. 2.
Related resource: Durrieu, Paul, "Les Heures du Maréchal de Boucicaut du Musée Jacquemart-André," Revue de l'art Chrétien, vol. 63 (1913), p. 308, and vol. 64 (1914), pp. 28-29 (mistakenly as "M.J. Pierpont Morgan").
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, 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, no. 6.
Related resource: Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 453.
Related resource: Pächt, Otto, "The Limbourgs and Pisanello," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 6, 62 (September 1963): pp. 116-118 (article pp. 110-122).
Related resource: Millard Meiss with Kathleen Morand and Edith W. Kirsch, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master, National Gallery of Art, Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, no. 3, (London: Phaidon, 1968), pp. 140, 143, fn. 6.
Related resource: Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke, National Gallery of Art, Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, no. 2, 2nd ed. (London: Phaidon, 1969), text. vol. p. 358.
Related resource: Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (New York: George Brazillier for The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974), p. 388.
Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia. Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 16.
Related resource: Edwin Wolf 2nd ed., Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries, a Selection of Books, Manuscripts, and Works of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988), p. 36, no. 3.
Related resource: Duclow, Donald F., "Dying Well: The Ars moriendi and the Dormition of the Virgin," in Death and Dying in the Middle Ages, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society, vol. 45 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), p. 393, figs. 22, 23.
Related resource: Bartz, Gabrielle, Der Boucicaut-Meister: Ein unbekanntes Stundenbuch, Illuminationen: Studien und Monographien, vol. 1 (Röthalmünster, Germany: Heribert Tenschert, Katalog 42, 1999), p. 123.
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. 103-104, no. 32.
Related resource: Deuffic, Jean Luc, Philadelphia, Free Library, Widener 6. Des possesseurs bretons: Sébastienne Boscher et Christophe de Caradreux
Provenance: Marguerite de Lorraine (?), duchesse de Joyeuse, early sixteenth century (according to 1902 Belin catalogue); Sebastienne Boscher, dame des Aulnays et de Bocquemar (Beauce), sixteenth century (ownership inscriptions on fols. 232r and 252v); P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia; Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia, 1915; given by his children, Josephine Widener Wichfeld and Peter A. B...

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

Prayers and devotions

Books of hours

French (culture or style)

France

binding (textile material)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/widener_006.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/widener_006/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia