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Book of hours (MS H.7).

Accession number
MS H.7
Object title
Book of hours (MS H.7).
Created
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Binding
Blond leather, gold tooled, with Crucifixion scene, scroll work, and words: Bonne Te He; brass clasps with monogram TGBF (or TGBE); France or Low Countries, ca. 1560-1590.
Credit line
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
147 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 180 x 119 mm
Provenance
Prunier family (18th century armorial bookplate with device: Turris Mea Deus); Libraries Lardanchet, Paris; the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); calendar for Bruges; written and illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1470.
Decoration: 15 full-page miniatures, 13 historiated initials, decorated initials and borders; Flemish Gothic style.
Artist: workshop of Guillaume Vrelant.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar for use of Tournai -- fols. 13r: Blank -- fols. 13v-14v: prayer, Salve sancta facies ... -- fols. 15r: Blank -- fols. 15v-20v: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 21r: Blank -- fols. 21v-25r: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 25v-26r: Blank -- fols. 26v-34r: Mass of the Virgin -- fols. 34v-35r: Blank -- fols. 35v-84r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 84v-85r: Blank -- fols. 85v-88v: Prayer to the Virgin, Obsecro te -- fols. 89r-90v: Prayer to the Virgin, O intemerata -- fols. 91r: Blank -- fols. 91v-107r: Seven penitential psalms, followed by litany and collects -- fols. 107v-108r: Blank -- fols. 108v-140v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 141r-147v: Suffrages -- fols. 148r-148v: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
Classification