Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener 7

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DS ID:

DS6339

Shelfmark:

Widener 7

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Artist:

Boucicaut Master, active 15th century

Master of Boucicaut WIKIDATA

Place:

Paris?, France

Paris TGN

Date:

1400-1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+250+ii; 206 x 145 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Lawrence, Edwin H.

Edwin H. Lawrence WIKIDATA

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

Henry Yates Thompson WIKIDATA

Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923

Clarence S. Bement WIKIDATA

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

Joseph E. Widener WIKIDATA

Wichfeld, Josephine Widener

Josephine Widener Wichfield WIKIDATA

Widener, Peter Arrell Brown, 1895-1948

Peter Arrell Brown Widener II WIKIDATA

Note:

Paper flyleaves are loose; water damage on a number of pages; several leaves missing
Calendar and prayers on fols. 240r-248v in French
Two front flyleaves, one eighteenth-century paper followed by one parchment; two end flyleaves, one parchment followed by eighteenth-century paper
Binding: French, eighteenth century, black morocco, gold tooled, spine stamped in gold: MISS. MA. S.S. SWO VELIN; by Bozerian (?)
Layout: One column of fifteen lines; ruled in red ink; written area: 60 x 100 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Twelve large miniatures; illuminated borders throughout; illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout
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. 7.
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): 116 (article pp. 110-122).
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. 17.
Related resource: Cordellier, Dominique and Paola Marini, Pisanello: le peintre aux sept vertus (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996), p. 227.
Provenance: Library of Edwin H. Lawrence (sale of 1894); Henry Yates Thompson; his sale London, Sotheby's, May 14, 1902; collection of Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923), Philadelphia (bookplate inside front cover); Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia (ex-libris inside front cover); given by his children, Josephine Widener Wichfeld and Peter A. B. Widener, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1944...

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

miniatures (paintings)

Gothic (Medieval)

Prayers and devotions

Books of hours

French (culture or style)

France

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/widener_007.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/widener_007/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia