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Book of hours (MS M.276).

Accession number
MS M.276
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.276).
Created
Paris, France, 1500-1515.
Binding
French 17th-century citron morocco, gold-tooled; lettered: Heures.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
102 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 240 x 160 mm
Provenance
No. 103 in a French catalogue, ca. 1830-1840 (said to be a De Bure catalogue); initials TOA on upper right corner of fol. 1 (monogram of owner, ca. 1840); William Horatio Crawford; his sale London, 1891, no. 1651 to Quaritch; catalogue 138 (1893), no. 119; Sotheby's sale (London, July 3, 1899, no. 1651) to Quaritch, catalogue 211 (1902), no. 172 and catalogue 220 (1903), no. 18; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Olschki in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in France, probably Paris, between 1500 and 1515.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, 13 half-page miniatures, 17 historiated border vignettes, 24 calendar illustrations, and illuminated borders and vignettes throughout.
Contents
fol. 1r: Blank -- fols. 1v-4r: Calendar -- fol. 4v: Miniature of the Creation of Eve -- fols. 5r-8v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 8v-11v: Obsecro te and O intemerata -- fols. 12r-53v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 54r-56r: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 56v-59r: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 59v: Blank -- fols. 60r-67v: Penitential Psalms -- fols. 68r-71v: Litany and other prayers -- fols. 72r-99v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 99v-102v: Suffrages.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification