ID: 700008685 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008685	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Book of Hours (illuminated manuscript; Workshop of the Boucicaut Master (illuminator) [French, acti...; about 1415 - 1420; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 86.ML.571; Ms. 22)

Note: 281 folios + 5 flyleaves, 17 three-quarter page miniatures, 12 quarter-page miniatures. Three anonymous artists illuminated this book of hours for a wealthy bourgeois woman, about whom scholars know little besides that she was probably named Margaret. The book typifies those coveted by middle-class women in Europe in the early 1400s. A medieval poet mocked this materialism, referring specifically to such books: "A book of hours, too, must be mine, just as a nobleman desires. Let it be splendidly crafted in gold and azure, luxurious and elegant." A book of hours contains prayers designed for laypeople and organized for private recitation at the eight canonical hours of the Church day. As the poet noted, the materials and decoration were as important as the textual contents. This luxuriously designed book contains seventeen three-quarter-page miniatures and twelve quarter-page miniatures, all on pages with delicate, leafy borders. The artists used expensive pigments and achieved an extremely high level of artistic refinement that undoubtedly dazzled the client.

Titles:

Book of Hours (preferred,C,U,English,U,U)

Ms. 22 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: volume

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

book of hours [300026457]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts)

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1415 - 1420

Creator Display:

Workshop of the Boucicaut Master (illuminator) [French, active about 1390 - 1430] and Workshop of the Rohan Master (illuminator) [French, active about 1410 - 1440]; Boucicaut Master (illuminator) [French, active about 1390 - 1430] [preferred,JPGM]

illuminator Boucicaut Master (French illuminator, active ca. 1390-1430) [500019456]

illuminator Master of the Rohan Hours (French illuminator, active ca. 1420-ca. 1430) Qualifier: workshop of [500023303]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Other: Former: England [7002445] United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 86.ML.571; Ms. 22

Display Materials: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between wood boards covered with white pigskin

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	wood board [300162666]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, <wood by product>)

	pigskin [300011849]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, collagenous material, skin (collagenous material))

Dimensions: leaves: 20.5 x 14.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	hours (prayers) [300404017]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), prayers (compositions)) (AAT)

	prayers (literary genre) [300026452]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	Latin (language) [300388693]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed original front flyleaf, upper center, in pen, late eighteenth century: "Ce livre autant que l'on peut en juger paroit écrit vers le milieu du quinsième siècle. Bourgeois au Chastenet."; verso, upper center, in pencil: "B". Inscribed fol. 281, upper outer corner, in pencil, probably English, c. 1900: "Bk/Bk/-".

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Book of Hours	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. 22	........ [VP,JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=1758

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)