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
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
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