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Book of hours (MS M.173).

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.
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
Century
Classification