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Book of hours (MS M.196).

Accession number
MS M.196
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.196).
Created
Savoy or Besançon, France, ca. 1470.
Binding
French 19th-century dark brown morocco; lettered: Heures.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
173 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 132 mm
Provenance
Arms (fleurs-de-lis, etc.) in borders, possibly repainted; bought Nov. 20, 1895 by Richard Bennett, his bookplate, his Catalogue, no. 34; 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 Besançon; written and illuminated in Besançon or Savoy, ca. 1470.
Artist: a follower of Antoine de Lonhy.
Decoration: 21 large miniatures, 11 small border miniatures.
The illumination of M.196 is unfinished. The heraldic shield in the upper left margin of fol. 78r has not been painted.
Contents
fols. 1r-66v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 67r-71r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 71v-77v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 78r-101r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 101v-112v: Suffrages -- fols. 113r-148v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 148v-155v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 155v-158v: Prayer, Domine Ihesu Christe qui septem -- fols. 159r-159v: Prayer, Domine Ihesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam -- fols. 160r-161v: Prayers: Adoro te domine; Domine Ihesu Christe mittere digneris sanctum angelum; Domine deus omnipotens creator celi et terre in manus tuas.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
Century
Classification