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Book of hours (MS M.84).

Accession number
MS M.84
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.84).
Created
Brittany, France, ca. 1465
Binding
French 16th-century brown morocco tooled with the fleur-de-lis and various flowers, a panel of acorns on the spine; Instruments of the Passion at center front cover, Annunciation center back cover, in blue morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
174 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 130 mm
Provenance
Said to have been made for, and inscription on 2nd flyleaf states book used by, Françoise d'Amboise (1427-1485), foundress of the community of Nazareth, ca. 1480; 18th-century bookplate of the Sequin (?) family on 4th flyleaf with the motto: Dieu écrit droit sur la ligne courbe (same motto appears in Walters Art Museum MS W.288 associated with the Sequin family); sale by Sotheby's (London, Dec. 12, 1893, lot 70) to Pickering for Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 77); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rennes (Calendar and Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in Brittany, ca. 1465.
Decoration: 31 large miniatures; French Gothic style.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-87v: Hours of the Virgin, with Short Hours of the Cross and Holy Spirit intercalated -- fols. 88r-103r: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 103v-105r: Beginning of Gospel Sequence of John -- fols. 105v-108v: Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te -- fols. 109r-112r: Prayer to the Virgin, O Intemerata -- fols. 112v-113r: Prayer in French (Deus Deus qui es sans fin) -- fols. 113v-114r: Short Passion according to John -- fols. 114v-117v: Prayer on the Passion and Sacrament -- fols. 118r-122v: Suffrages (two fols. added after 121) -- fols. 123r-165v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 166r-174v: Prayer to the Virgin, in French roigne (ends imperfect).
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Century
Classification