id: 133420 accession number: 1955.79 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.79 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:11.766000 Pair of Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi and Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1415. Workshop of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; folio: 16.8 x 12.7 cm (6 5/8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.79 title: Pair of Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi and Coronation of the Virgin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1415 creation date earliest: 1410 creation date latest: 1420 current location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Paris, 15th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25) - artist --- measurements: Folio: 16.8 x 12.7 cm (6 5/8 x 5 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Netherlandish Book Illustrations opening date: 1960-04-22T05:00:00 Netherlandish Book Illustrations. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 22-May 15, 1960). title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation) opening date: 2022-08-26T04:00:00 The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Netherlandish Illumination, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 22-May 12, 1960). --- PROVENANCE Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1955 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1955- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: All books of hours contain the same basic sections and were highly customizable. digital description: Books of hours were devotional books popular in the Middle Ages. Meant for laypeople, or those not in the clergy they were used at home and contained daily prayers as well as prayers for specific occasions, such as death, plague, warfare, travel, or bad weather. The heart of every book of hours is the Hours of the Virgin. With this set of prayers, the reader
asked the Virgin Mary to intercede on their behalf. The adoration of the Magi opens sext, the sixth Hour of the Day or Noon. The Coronation of the Virgin begins compline,: which is before retiring. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 130649 Leaves from a Book of Hours: The Visitation and Christ in Judgment, c. 1415. Workshop of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410-25). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 17 x 12.7 cm (6 11/16 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.366 relationship: --- CITATIONS Allen Memorial Art Museum. An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 Thorugh May 12. 1960. page number: Cat. no. 10 a-d url: Gothic Art 1360-1440. (1963). The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 50(7). page number: no. 13, p. 188 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 Meiss, Millard, Kathleen Morand, and Edith W. Kirsch. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Boucicaut Master. 1968. page number: p. 139 url: Sotheby's (Firm). Medieval Illuminated Miniatures from the Collection of the Late Eric Korner. 1990. page number: Lots 21-24 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.79/1955.79_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.79/1955.79_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.79/1955.79_full.tif