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Set of 9 pages from a Book of Hours

Maker

Workshop of
(artist)
active ca. 1390-1430 (Life dates)

Title

Date of Production

c. 1415-1420

Medium

tempera paint and gold-leaf on parchment

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm
Width: 13 cm

Accession Number

D.1966.GP.31

Mode of Acquisition

Gambier Parry, bequest, 1966

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Book of Hours

Label Text

Books of Hours were used in private prayer, usually by lay people, and often contained as their central text the Hours of the Virgin Mary, a shorter version of the devotional prayers performed at eight set points during the day by religious orders and the clergy. Each of the nine folios contains a new text in Latin, preceded by a miniature, including scenes from the life of Mary.

Notes

Books of Hours were used in private prayer, usually by lay people, and often contained as their central text the Hours of the Virgin Mary, a shorter version of the devotional prayers performed at eight set points during the day by religious orders and the clergy. Each of the pages shown here indicates the beginning of a new text, and is decorated with miniature scenes: the Crucifixion, the Last Judgement, and the Coronation of the Virgin.

Provenance

Gambier-Parry Bequest 1966

Exhibition History

The Gambier-Parry Collection, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Literature

M. Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Late XIVth Century and the Patronage of the Duke (London, 1967), p. 206, fig. 669.
p. 139
as by 'Followers' of the Boucicaut Master

Kathleen Morand, 'Pages from a Book of Hours illuminated in the Parisian workshop of the Boucicaut Master', The Burlington Magazine, 109, 768, March 1967, pp. 174-75, 177
p. 174

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