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.
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
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