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Book of hours (MS M.219).

Accession number
MS M.219
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.219).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1500.
Binding
French 16th century calf (repaired) with Crucifixion and Annunciation; 2 clasps, in tan morocco case lettered: Grenoble - Horae manuscrit français - Xve siècle - Exemplaire de Henri iii.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
210 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 206 x 140 mm
Provenance
Quaritch, catalogue 138 (1893), no. 136; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Quaritch before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for Carthusian use; written and illuminated in France, possibly Paris, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 5 large miniatures, 8 small miniatures.
Artist: Master of Morgan 219, recently rechristened Maître de la Chronique scandaleuse.
Revised: 2016
Contents
fol. 2v: Prayers (in a later hand) -- fols. 3r-14v: Calendar -- fol. 15r: Blank -- fols. 15v-28r: Passion according to John -- fols. 28v-31v: Stabat mater and other prayers -- fols. 32r-127r: Hours of the Virgin -- fol. 127v: Blank -- fols. 128r-150v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 151r-151v: Blank -- fols. 152r-208r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 208v-210r: Prayers (in a later hand).
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification