Accession number
MS M.1107
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1107).
Created
France, perhaps Provence, ca. 1470-1480.
Binding
20th-century blue morocco, gold inscription on spine Preces piae, gilded edges.
Credit line
Purchased on the Charles Ryskamp Acquisition Fund and the James H. Heineman Purchase Fund, 1997.
Description
149 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 135 x 90 mm
Provenance
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N.J.; purchased on the Charles Ryskamp Acquisition Fund and the James H. Heineman Purchase Fund in 1997.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead) calendar for Provence; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Provence, ca. 1470-1480.
Decoration: 5 miniatures with full borders, 9 pages with partial borders and large decorated initials. Heraldic device in the border of fol. 21r: mounted knight in gold armor on horse in lilac and blue caparison, purple shield with cross or arrow tip; hybrid figure with purple pennant with three vertical crosses or arrow tips. 19th-century floral and zoomorphic decoration added to the Calendar section, fols. 1r-12v.
Artist: miniature style close to Enguerrand Quarton and the Master of Rene II, known as Georges Trubert.
Decoration: 5 miniatures with full borders, 9 pages with partial borders and large decorated initials. Heraldic device in the border of fol. 21r: mounted knight in gold armor on horse in lilac and blue caparison, purple shield with cross or arrow tip; hybrid figure with purple pennant with three vertical crosses or arrow tips. 19th-century floral and zoomorphic decoration added to the Calendar section, fols. 1r-12v.
Artist: miniature style close to Enguerrand Quarton and the Master of Rene II, known as Georges Trubert.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 21r-78v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 79r-86v: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 87r-91r: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 96r-108r: Penitential Psalms -- fols. 108r-111v: Litany -- fols. 113r-144v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 145r-149v: Obsecro te.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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