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Detailed record for Additional 16997
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| Title |
Book of Hours, Use of Paris |
| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Boucicaut Master, except for f. 72v which has been attributed to the Master of the Bedford Hours (see Meiss, The Limbourgs (1974), p. 364). |
| Decoration |
17 miniatures with full borders in colours and gold (ff. 21, 45v, 57, 63, 68, 72v, 77, 84v, 90, 111, 119v, 129, 137, 145, 153v, 163, 171v); plus two historiated initials with partial borders in colours and gold (ff. 219 and 223). Large initials in colours with gold grounds and foliate decoration. Small initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 115 (85 x 50) |
| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 226 (f. i and 1 are parchment flyleaves at the beginning, + an unfoliated flyleaf after f. 1; f. ii is a parchment flyleaf at the end, + 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Étienne Chevalier (b. c.1410, d. 1474), Treasurer of France: in the border of f. 90 is a red medallion bearing two interlaced ‘E’s added by the artist Jean Fouquet (b. c. 1420, d. c. 1480) for Étienne Chevalier (Fouquet was commissioned by Étienne Chevalier to produce a Book of Hours (the Hours of Étienne Chevalier), now fragmentary, a miniature of which is Additional 37421; 40 of the extant miniatures are in a manuscript that is Chantilly Bibliothèque du Château, MS 71).
Edward Harman, of Clay Hill, Enfield, book collector: his sale, London, 18 June 1847, lot 1395 (note on f. 1 and in A Catalogue of the Valuable and Important Library of Edward Harman, Esq. (1847), p. 68); purchased by the British Museum. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 342.
The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner, (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), II, pl. 116.
[George Warner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series I, (London: British Museum, 1907), pl. 30.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master (London : Phaidon, 1968), pp. 23-26, 29, 33, 37, 40, 41, 57, 59, 62, 68-69, 71-73, 77, 79, 92, 137, 149 n. 22, 153 n. 34; figs 134, 172, 174, 283-295, 299.
Otto Pächt, Buchmalerei des Mittelalters (Munich: Prestel, 1984), p. 198, fig. 207.
Lilian M. C. Randall and others, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), I: France, 875-1420, p. 237.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), p. 27, fig. 21.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (London, 1974), I, p. 364; II, figs 263, 598, 752.
Masters and Miniatures: Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Nothern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989), ed. by Koert van der Horst and Johann-Christian Klamt (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1991), p. 57.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 141, fig. 238.
Albert Chatelet, L'Âge d'or du manuscrit à peintures en France au temps de Charles VI et les Heures du Maréchal Boucicaut (Dijon: Institut de France, 2000), p. 47, fig. 24.
Janet Backhouse, Illuminations from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 57.
Gregory T. Clark, Art in a Time of War (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016), pp. 68, 152, 298, 300, 391 n9, Ills. 63, 160. |
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f. 31
Pen-flourished Initials |
f. 45v
Visitation |
f. 57
Adoration of the Child |
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f. 63
Annunciation to the Shepherds |
f. 72v
Presentation of Christ in the Temple |
f. 77
Flight into Egypt |
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f. 84v
Coronation of the Virgin |
f. 90
David |
f. 119v
Mass for the Dead |
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f. 129v
Pentecost |
f. 137
All Saints |
f. 153v
Crucifixion |
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f. 163
Assumption |
f. 171v
Office of the Dead |
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