Free Library of Philadelphia, Widener 9
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS6341
- Shelfmark:
- Widener 9
- Title:
- Psalter-Hours
- Place:
- Amiens?, France
- Date:
- 1265-1275
- Language:
- Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i+242+i; 185 x 125 mm bound to 190 x 130 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- de Foix, Constance, wife of Jean de Lévis, Seigneur de Mirepoix
de Lévis, Isabelle, daughter of Constance de Foix
Mielzynski, Max
Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943
- Note:
- Tight binding; loss of gold leaf in some miniatures
The hands of two artists have been determined; the artist of the prefatory cycle and psalter also illuminated a psalter in the collection of the Comte de Boisrouvray (Sold at auction Sotheby's, London, July 6, 2000, lot 77), as well as a manuscript of Chretien de Troyes in Princeton, University Library, Garrett 125, and a book of hours in Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, W. 86; two other...
Binding: Late sixteenth-century, French brown morocco fanfare
Layout: One column of twenty lines; frame-ruled in lead with double horizontal bounding lines; significantly trimmed edges; written area: 120 x 80 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Thirteen full-page miniatures; seventeen historiated initials with framing bars, some inhabited; twenty-four calendar roundels of the Labors of the Months and the signs of the zodiac; 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. 2117, no. 9.
Related resource: Haseloff, Günther, Die Psalterillustration im 13. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Geschichte der Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederlanden (Kiel, 1938), pp. 54 ff., 114-215.
Related resource: The Walters Art Gallery, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27-March 13 (Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949), p. 22, no. 54, pl. 28c.
Related resource: Stones, Alison, "Aspects of Arthur's Death in Medieval Illumination," in The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition, ed. Christopher Baswell and William Sharpe (New York: Garland, 1988), p. 81, n. 32 (article pp. 52-101).
Related resource: Oliver, Judith H., Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liége, c. 1250-c.1330, Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, vol. 2 (Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1988), vol. 1, p. 76, n. 66, p. 150, n. 121.
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), pp. 7-8, illus. facing p. 7.
Related resource: Stones, Alison, "The Illustrated Chrétien Manuscripts and Their Artistic Context," in The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, ed. Keith Busby et al. (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 251-252, figs. 73-76.
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. 54-56, no. 11.
Related resource: Hourihane, Colum, ed., Time in the Medieval World: Occupations of the Months & Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art (Princeton: Index of Christian Art and The Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 65, 76, 92, 128, 183, 232, 282, 314.
Provenance: Constance de Foix, wife of Jean de Lévis, Seigneur de Mirepoix, 1332 (obit recorded in calendar for 3 March, fol. 14r); Isabelle de Lévis, daughter of Constance de Foix and dame de la Tour d'Auvergne, 1361 (obit recorded in calendar for 4 April, fol. 14v); count Mielzynski of Pawlowice Castle, Poland ("Pawlowice 1846" inscribed on front cover); Count Max Mielzynski; P. A. B... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/widener_009.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/widener_009/manifest.json
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