(Q26514)
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Egerton Master, active 1410
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Master of the Mazarin Hours
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Bedford Master, follower
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Marguerite de Lorraine
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Boscher, Sebastienne
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Widener, Joseph E. (Joseph Early), 1872-1943
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1415-1420
15. century
1415Gregorian
1420Gregorian
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Extent: i+252+i; 220 x 155 mm bound to 225 x 160 mm; parchment
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Delicate binding, some gatherings loose
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Binding: Late-sixteenth-century, French, gold-tooled spine and boards stamped "Servire Deo" on the upper cover and "Regnare Est" on the lower cover, attributed to Marguerite de Lorraine, duchesse de Joyeuse
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Layout: One column of thirteen lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 95 x 65 mm
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Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
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Decoration: Forty-one large miniatures; one historiated initial; three-line decorated initials at major text divisions; smaller decorated initials and line-endings throughout; full foliate borders throughout, some with colored acanthus leaves, some containing roundels featuring grotesques and human figures; illuminated initials and line-endings throughout
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Related resource: Catalogue general des manuscripts des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 10 (Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 1889), pp. 338-339, no. 84.
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Related resource: Catalogue de livres rares manuscrits avec miniatures, Théophile Belin, Paris, 1902, no. 2.
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Related resource: Durrieu, Paul, "Les Heures du Maréchal de Boucicaut du Musée Jacquemart-André," Revue de l'art Chrétien, vol. 63 (1913), p. 308, and vol. 64 (1914), pp. 28-29 (mistakenly as "M.J. Pierpont Morgan").
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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. 6.
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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.
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Related resource: Pächt, Otto, "The Limbourgs and Pisanello," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 6, 62 (September 1963): pp. 116-118 (article pp. 110-122).
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Related resource: Millard Meiss with Kathleen Morand and Edith W. Kirsch, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master, National Gallery of Art, Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, no. 3, (London: Phaidon, 1968), pp. 140, 143, fn. 6.
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Related resource: Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke, National Gallery of Art, Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, no. 2, 2nd ed. (London: Phaidon, 1969), text. vol. p. 358.
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Related resource: Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries (New York: George Brazillier for The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974), p. 388.
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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. 16.
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Related resource: Edwin Wolf 2nd ed., Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries, a Selection of Books, Manuscripts, and Works of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988), p. 36, no. 3.
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Related resource: Duclow, Donald F., "Dying Well: The Ars moriendi and the Dormition of the Virgin," in Death and Dying in the Middle Ages, ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick, Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society, vol. 45 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), p. 393, figs. 22, 23.
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Related resource: Bartz, Gabrielle, Der Boucicaut-Meister: Ein unbekanntes Stundenbuch, Illuminationen: Studien und Monographien, vol. 1 (Röthalmünster, Germany: Heribert Tenschert, Katalog 42, 1999), p. 123.
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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. 103-104, no. 32.
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Related resource: Deuffic, Jean Luc, Philadelphia, Free Library, Widener 6. Des possesseurs bretons: Sébastienne Boscher et Christophe de Caradreux
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Provenance: Marguerite de Lorraine (?), duchesse de Joyeuse, early sixteenth century (according to 1902 Belin catalogue); Sebastienne Boscher, dame des Aulnays et de Bocquemar (Beauce), sixteenth century (ownership inscriptions on fols. 232r and 252v); P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia; Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia, 1915; given by his children, Josephine Widener Wichfeld and Peter A. B...
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Contributor: Diane Biunno
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Cataloger: Amey Hutchins
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Cataloger: Judith Weston
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Cataloger: Nicholas Herman
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Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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5 December 2023
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5 December 2023
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