Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener 8

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DS ID:

DS6340

Shelfmark:

Widener 8

Title:

Book of Hours, use of Paris

Artist:

Majorana, Cristoforo (Italian illuminator, active ca. 1480-1494)

Cristoforo Majorana WIKIDATA

Place:

Naples, Italy

Naples TGN

France

France TGN

Date:

1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: vi+243+vi; 204 x 140 mm bound to 210 x 155 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Wills, Howel

Howel Wills WIKIDATA

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

Clarence S. Bement WIKIDATA

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

Joseph E. Widener WIKIDATA

Note:

Spine is separating from text block; many folios are coming loose
Illuminated in Naples, Italy; text written in France
Faint, mostly illegible inscription in upper margin on fol. 1r in nineteenth-century italic script; same hand appears again on fol. 12v-13r where it fills in missing opening text of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin
One leaf with a miniature missing between fols. 186 and 187
Binding: Red morocco with gilt edges, spine labeled "HEURES"; early-nineteenth century
Layout: One column of fourteen lines, ruled in red ink; text written in blue ink and gold leaf; written area: 98 x 60 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Sixteen large miniatures with full borders, some inhabited; eleven four-line illuminated initials with foliate spray, fifteen three-line illuminated initials (six with foliate spray extensions, nine without); two-line illuminated initials with foliate spray extensions, one-line illuminated initials without extensions, and line endings throughout; spaces for initials in Calendar...
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. 2117, no. 8.
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.
Provenance: Howel Wills (1854?-1901), Florence, under shelfmark. A.III.70; his sale, Sotheby's, 11 July 1894, no. 1417; bookplate of Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923), Philadelphia; 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, in memory of their father

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

miniatures (paintings)

Italy

Italian (culture or style)

Prayers and devotions

Books of hours

French (culture or style)

France

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/widener_008.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/widener_008/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Free Library of Philadelphia