Accession number
MS M.1004
Object title
Hours of Charlotte of Savoy.
Created
Paris, France, approximately 1420-1425.
Binding
English late 18th-century red morocco gilt, with green leather label "Missale."
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Mr. Haliburton Fales, 2nd, Miss Alice Tully, and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1979.
Description
174 leaves (2 columns, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 155 mm
Provenance
Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy (or possiblyYolande of France and Amédée of Savoy), whose arms were added in the borders of the large miniatures; bought privately from Quaritch by A. Chester Beatty (his W ms. 95 [alternatively W ms. 67A; 79; 86]), 1923; his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 24, 1969, lot 59; bought by Arthur Haddaway (1901-1981) of Fort Worth, Texas.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Paris; written and illuminated in Paris, ca. 1420-1425.
Decoration: 13 large and 9 small miniatures, and 24 calendar illustrations, with full borders on nearly every leaf, most incorporating grotesques, animals, and insects.
Artists: A) Bedford Master or workshop (fols. 17r, 63v); B) Guise Master (51r, 54r, 95r); C) Master of Morgan 453 (44v, 58v, 64r, 89v, 143r, 146v); D) Master of the Spitz Hours (7r, 8r, 9r, 9v, 10v, 13v); E) Follower of the Boucicaut Master (33r, 40v, 47v, 78r, 99v).
Revised: 2015
Decoration: 13 large and 9 small miniatures, and 24 calendar illustrations, with full borders on nearly every leaf, most incorporating grotesques, animals, and insects.
Artists: A) Bedford Master or workshop (fols. 17r, 63v); B) Guise Master (51r, 54r, 95r); C) Master of Morgan 453 (44v, 58v, 64r, 89v, 143r, 146v); D) Master of the Spitz Hours (7r, 8r, 9r, 9v, 10v, 13v); E) Follower of the Boucicaut Master (33r, 40v, 47v, 78r, 99v).
Revised: 2015
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fols. 7r-10v: Gospel Sequences -- fols. 10v-13r: Obsecro te -- fols. 13v-16r: O intemerata -- fol. 16v: Blank -- fols. 17r-62r: Hours of the Virgin -- fol. 62v-63r: Blank -- fols. 64r-76v: Psalter of Jerome -- fol. 77r-77v: Blank -- fols. 78r-89r: Penitential Psalms, Litany -- fols. 89v-94v: Hours of the Cross -- fols. 95r-99r: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 99v-129v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 129v-142r: Suffrages -- fol. 142v: Blank -- fols. 143r-146r: Fifteen Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 146v-148v: Seven Requests of Our Lord -- fols. 149r-174v: Masses for Major Feasts from Easter to Christmas.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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