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Book of hours (MS M.137).

Accession number
MS M.137
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.137).
Created
Rouen, France, 1470-1480
Binding
19th-century brown mosaic morocco, red morocco doublure.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1902.
Description
135 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 130 mm
Provenance
Bought Jan. 24, 1893 by 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. 63; 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 Rouen (Hours of the Virgin, calendar, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Rouen, France, 1470-1480.
Decoration: 14 large miniatures with inhabited borders; French Gothic style.
Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Échevinage.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-18r: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 18v-22r: Obsecro te -- fols. 22r-26r: O intemerata -- fol. 26v: Blank -- fols. 27r-75r: Hours of the Virgin -- fol. 75v: Blank -- fols. 76r-78r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 78v-81r: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 81v: Blank -- fols. 82r-99r: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fol. 99v: Blank -- fols. 100r-127v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 128r-133r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 133r-135v: Seven Requests of the Lord.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
Classification