Accession number
MS M.60
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.60).
Created
France, possibly Thérouanne, ca. 1300.
Binding
Brown morocco blind-tooled by Bauzonnet, lettered: Heures de Nostre Dame.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
66 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 131 x 86 mm
Provenance
Belonged (ca. 1600?) to Anne and Françoise de Saligny (note on fol. 1); J. Rosenthal (1896); William Morris; sold to Richard Bennett (purchased from Morris's estate, 1897), his Catalogue, no. 31; 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 St.-Omer (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in France, possibly Thérouanne, ca. 1300 or, according to Alison Stones, seeing the influence of the 'Honoré' style, possibly Paris.
Decoration: 34 historiated initials, occasional animal drolleries in the margins.
Revised: 2017
Decoration: 34 historiated initials, occasional animal drolleries in the margins.
Revised: 2017
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 13r-26v: Hours of the Passion / Long Hours of the Cross -- fols. 27r-44r: Hours of the Trinity -- fols. 44r-v: Prayers, added 15th century -- fols. 45r-54v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 55r-63r: Office of the Dead -- fols. 73v-66v: Commendation of the Soul.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Middle French
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