Accession number
MS M.1020
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1020).
Created
France, possibly Angers, ca. 1450.
Binding
Late 16th-century French calf gilt, with Crucifixion medallion in center and arabesque cornerpieces.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Kraus, 1980.
Description
145 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 138 mm
Provenance
London, Sotheby's, Dec. 11, 1979, no. 62; H.P. Kraus.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Angers (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in France, possibly in Angers, ca. 1450; two miniatures (on fol. 32r and 33r) added ca. 1490.
Decoration: 2 full-page and 5 large miniatures, one with 3 historiated roundels in the border; elaborate panel borders on nearly every page.
Artist: the artist of the second of the two miniatures added ca. 1490 , an Icon of the Vingin, with the burning bush below on fol. 33, is probably Georges Trubert--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
Decoration: 2 full-page and 5 large miniatures, one with 3 historiated roundels in the border; elaborate panel borders on nearly every page.
Artist: the artist of the second of the two miniatures added ca. 1490 , an Icon of the Vingin, with the burning bush below on fol. 33, is probably Georges Trubert--Cf. Nineteenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980.
Contents
fols. 1r-10v: Miscellaneous prayers, including Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests of Our Lord, Suffrages to Sebastian of Rome, Anna, Margaret of Antioch, Catherine of Siena (All probably added later; 9r blank.) -- fols. 11r-22v: Calendar -- fols. 23r-24v: Gospel of John -- fols. 25r-29v: Prayer to Virgin Mary, Obsecro te -- fols. 30v-31v: Suffrages to Christopher of Lycia and Archangel Michael -- fol. 32r: Blank -- fol. 32v: Miniature, inserted c. 1490 -- fol. 33r: Miniature, inserted c. 1490 -- fol. 33v: Blank -- fols. 34r-34v: Litany (Added later.) -- fols. 35r-82r: Hours of the Virgin intercalated with Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 82v-97v: Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany (First folio added later.) -- fols. 98r-139v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 140r-145v: Suffrages.
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Language
Latin and Middle French
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