Accession number
MS M.173
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.173).
Created
Rennes, France, ca. 1430
Binding
Black levant morocco elaborately tooled in gold by Marguerite Duprez Lahey, 1911; in slip case (formerly bound in red velvet).
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
149 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 211 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Unknown original patron on fol. 16; Catalogue number 2013 written in item; Richard Bennett; Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 36; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Pol de Léon; written and illuminated in Brittany, France, probably Rennes, ca. 1430.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures surrounded by elaborate borders, kneeling female owner portrait on fol. 16.
Artists: 2 unidentified artists, probably working in Brittany in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures surrounded by elaborate borders, kneeling female owner portrait on fol. 16.
Artists: 2 unidentified artists, probably working in Brittany in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Contents
fols. 1r-1v: Blank -- fols. 2r-13v: Calendar -- fols. 14r-14v: Gospel of John -- fol. 15r: Prayer, Protector in te sperancium -- fol. 15v: Blank -- fols. 16r-73v: Hours of the Virgin, Short Hours of the Cross and Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (intercalated) -- fols. 74r-74v: Blank -- fols. 75r-96v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 97r-98v: Blank -- fols. 99r-133v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 133v-137r: Suffrages -- fols. 137v-138v: Blank -- fols. 139r-142r: Obsecro te (beginning missing) -- fols. 143r-143v: Blank -- fols. 144r-146v: Suffrages -- fols. 147r-149v: Blank.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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