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Corporate Author:
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Catholic Church.
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Uniform Title:
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Book of hours (Ms. Free Library of Philadelphia. Widener 6)
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Title:
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[Book of hours : use of Paris].
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Publication Information:
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[Paris, ca. 1415-1420].
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Physical Description:
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252 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 220 x 155 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (parchment) +252 leaves + i (paper)
Layout: Written in 1 column of 13 lines, ruled in red ink; textblock: 95 x 65 mm.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand.
Decoration: 41 half-page miniatures, 1 historiated initial, large (3-line) decorated initials at major text divisions, smaller decorated initials; line-endings throughout and foliate borders throughout. The miniatures have been painted by at least four or five artists, of which only three have been associated with known artistic personalities: a follower of the Egerton Master (six miniatures between fol. 147v-155r), the Master of the Mazarin Hours (fols. 13r, 15r, 17r, 19r, 20v, 114r), and an associate of the Bedford Master (fols. 71r, 105v, 220v).
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Widener 6.
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1r-12v: Calendar.
2. fol. 13r-20r: Gospel Sequences.
3. fol. 20v-28r: Prayers to the Virgin (O Intemerata and Obsecro te)
4. fol. 29r-112v: Hours of the Virgin, Paris Use.
5. fol. 113r-v: blank.
6. fol. 114r-128r: Seven Penitential Psalms.
7. fol. Litany.
8. fol. 135v-147r: Short Hours of the Cross.
9. fol. 147v-158r: Hours of the Holy Spirit.
10. fol. 158v-214v: Office of the Dead, Paris Use.
11. fol. 215r-224v: Suffrages.
12. fol. 225r-231v: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin (in French)
13. fol. 231v-232r: Prayer to the Five Wounds of Christ (in French)
14. fol. 232v-236r: Seven Requests to Our Lord.
15. fol. 236v-252r: Masses of the Virgin, the Holy Cross, the Holy Spirit, and for the Dead.
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Corporate Subject:
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Catholic Church Prayer-books and devotions Latin.
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Subject Term:
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Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Books of hours France Paris.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic France Paris.
Illuminations France 15th century.
Miniatures Illuminations France Paris 15th century.
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Added Author:
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Master of the Mazarin Hours,
Widener, Joseph E.
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Added Author:
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Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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